| 单词 | black tracker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack tracker black tracker n. Australian (now chiefly historical) an Australian Aboriginal person employed by police to track down fugitives or persons lost in the bush. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [noun] > following track or trail > one who tracer1552 tracker1617 puggee1823 spoorer1850 black tracker1862 1862 Melbourne Leader 5 July The black trackers could only discover the tracks of six horsemen. 1867 J. Morison Austral. 88 The native police, or ‘black trackers’,..are a body of aborigines trained to act as policemen. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right xvii The sooner we get the black trackers on the trail, then the sooner we shall have a chance of seeing some of it back. 1952 R. E. Robinson in Coast to Coast 1951–2 213 The black-tracker, in his police boy's shirt, trousers, and hat, was with them. 1988 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 30 Sept. Northern Territory police have called in black trackers to search for a man alleged to have shot and killed six members of his family at a remote outstation in Arnhem Land. 2006 Weekend Post (Cairns, Queensland) (Nexis) 11 Feb. 5 Dr Musgrave was one of the last of the recognised ‘black trackers’. In 1960 he found the little boy lost in Australia's most famous search, at Guyra, New South Wales. < as lemmas |
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