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Definition of penner-up in English: penner-upnounpɛnə(r)ˈʌp Australian, NZ (on a sheep station) a worker who rounds up and pens sheep preparatory to shearing. penners-up with their own dogs shall be paid an additional allowance Example sentencesExamples - The penner-up abused me for the sheep that he let escape.
- It avoids any stoppage to fill catching pens, as the penner-up just slides back the gate when the shearer has caught his last sheep.
- If the employer does not provide dog meat and permit the penners-up to house their dogs on the premises, a further allowance shall be paid.
- "Wool away!" they yelled at the rouseabout, "sheep-o!" at the penner-up.
- The following rates of wages shall be paid to wool-rollers, piece-pickers, penners-up, and other shed hands.
- So stir yourselves, you penners-up, and shove the sheep along.
- Penners-up at work with their own dogs shall be paid an additional allowance at the rate of 80 cents per week.
- He was working as a penner-up at a sheep station.
- With luck, the penner-up will let the sheep out of the catching pens back into the sweating pens overnight.
- The margin per week for a penner-up is $5.30.
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