单词 | waler |
释义 | walern.1 1. Coal Mining. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > who clears debris reddsman1672 waler1825 coal picker1905 gummer1921 1825 E. Mackenzie Hist. View Northumberland (ed. 2) I. 91 Wailers are boys employed to pick out slate, pyrites, and other foul admixtures from the coal. 1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) (Newcastle Terms) Waler, boys who pick the refuse from the good coals. Categories » This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2018). Walern.2 1. Anglo-Indian. A horse imported from Australia, esp. from New South Wales. Also, a type of light Australian horse. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by breed > [noun] > miscellaneous breeds Frison?a1400 jennet1463 garron1540 Galloway1598 ghoonta1613 Goonhilly1640 forester1712 yabu1753 Highland pony1768 Narragansett pacer1777 Suffolk punch1784 Nubian1790 Cleveland bay1796 cob1818 Conestoga1824 marsh tacky1826 Narragansett1826 Russian pony1829 Clydesdale1831 Turkoman1831 Morgan1841 tarpan1841 Waler1849 Percheron1855 Canuck1860 Anglo-Arabian1864 Anglo-Arab1869 Belgium1878 Palouse1881 standardbred1888 Belgium draught horse1889 saddlebred1891 Timor pony1895 Haflinger1899 Argentine1901 Belgian1907 palomino1914 Appaloosa1924 Trakehner1926 Lipizzaner1928 Tennessee walking horse1938 Bhotia1939 cremello1944 Akhal-Teke1947 Palouse horse1947 Tennessee walker1960 Falabella1977 1849 New S. Wales vii. 65 The colonial-bred horses or Walers, as they are called in India. 1888 R. Kipling Rout of White Hussars in Plain Tales from Hills 197 The Drum-Horse..is nearly always a big pie-bald Waler. 1897 ‘R. Boldrewood’ My Run Home xxxiv. 330 ‘I can't imagine any thing but the English thoroughbred worthy to be named in the same day with a high-caste Arab.’.. ‘I'll show you a Waler to-morrow that may convert you.’ 1900 H. Lawson Ballad of Cornstalk in Coll. Verse (1967) I. 380 He mounted his waler and rode to the sea (He was sick of the Bush and he longed for a spree). 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. iii. 71 Waler, originally a horse exported from New South Wales to India (in modern times, a light type of army horse used in Australia). 1963 Weekly News (Auckland) 8 May 38/4 The farm hack is a multi-breed horse—a dash of cob, a little thoroughbred, maybe a touch of the Australian ‘waler’ whose ancestry lies with Dutch and Spanish strains. 1968 J. Kiddell Euloowirree Walkabout (1970) xiii. 123 Lord, he exulted, but he's a fast horse. A Waler. One of the descendants of the bush-bred stock, the thoroughbreds of the Outback. 2. (With capital initial.) A native of New South Wales (or of Australia generally). slang. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun] > parts of bushboya1834 Melbournite1838 Melburnian1838 bushman1846 Vandemonian1852 scrubber1859 Queenslander1860 Victorian1862 Sydneysider1865 Centralian1875 Waler1880 Territorian1882 mutton-bird1892 bushy1896 sand-groper1896 tothersider1896 crow-eater1899 Bananalander1900 outbacker1900 Tassie1905 groper1924 Tasmanian1934 mutton-bird eater1941 Top-Ender1941 Kanakalander1945 1880 J. Inglis Our Austral. Cousins xiii. 159 In the matter of awnings and verandahs the ‘Walers’ had a grand chance for a bright, cheerful..display. 1924 G. H. A. Willis Royal Navy as I saw It 270 We left the Oceana, which continued her voyage to Australia with the ‘Walers’ (as the Australian passengers were called). 1949 Geogr. Mag. Feb. 373 Sydneysider or Waler, a resident of New South Wales. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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