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1890 R. C. Praed Romance of Station I. iv. 71 S'ool him, Bleuey!

1896 Mrs. K. L. Parker Austral. Legendary Tales 90 She went quickly towards her camp, calling softly, ‘Birree gougou’, which meant ‘Sool 'em, sool 'em’, and was the signal for the dogs to come out.

1904 ‘S. Rudd’ Sandy's Selection 60 ‘Sool 'im, sool 'im!’ the girls were shouting, and the blind dog sooled in moderation.

1935 Bulletin (Sydney) 6 Feb. 21/2 A pair of these birds will sometimes ‘sool’ a hare.

1959 A. Upfield Bony & Black Virgin xv. 135 ‘Sool 'em, Bluey,’ Bony pleaded, and the dog nosed about and finally went down under the scrub by a hole made by the foxes.

1960 B. Crump Good Keen Man 24 Another young dog would have been better encouragement than a man lumbering about trying to bark like a dog, and noisily skitching and sooling.

1898 Bulletin (Sydney) 30 Apr. 31/4 The rest of the company came out and ‘sooled’ on the twelve [arguers]. It was a glorious scrimmage.

1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 426/2 Sool.., used colloquially—(1) to excite a dog or set him on.

1911 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 222/2 Don't ‘sool’ the dogs to an unwise assault.

1911 L. Stone Jonah 31 The Push gathered round, grinning from ear to ear, sooling the women on as if they were dogs.

1916 C. J. Dennis Moods of Ginger Mick 39 The bugles East and West sooled on the dawgs o' war.

1921 E. O'Ferrall in W. Murdoch & H. Drake-Brockman Austral. Short Stories (1951) 158 Served him right if I sooled th' dog on him!

1942 G. Casey It's Harder for Girls 52 ‘Sool the dogs ofter him,’ someone called out.

1960 B. Crump Good Keen Man 23 I ran over and sooled the dog after the trotting sow.

1963 B. Pearson Coal Flat xii. 227 We'll get an Alsatian and sool it outa you.

1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 190 The hero may..like a lion-tamer sool her on to his enemies.

1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds iv. 80 Father Ralph worked like a man in the grip of some obsession, sooling the dogs after unsuspecting bands of sheep.

1935 H. R. Williams Comrades of Great Adventure 35 Here, as chief ‘sooler’, he was urging the passing soldiers to patronize the eating-house.

1938 X. Herbert Capricornia viii. 98 Then a war-monger, or Sooler, as such people were called in the locality, made his voice heard in the land.

1963 X. Herbert Disturbing Element 141 She had been sending white feathers round... She had become what her former comrades of the I.W.W. called a Sooler.