英语词汇“gully-raking”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

gully-raking

noun [mass noun] Australian /NZ historical

1The practice of rounding up or stealing unbranded livestock from remote areas: everybody does a spot of gully-raking now and then...

I was gully-raking with a mate in the mountains at the back of Richmond.
I had now to resort to what is termed moonlighting and gully-raking.
Cattle duffing and gully-raking for wandered livestock were in some cases a prelude to bushranging.

2The practice of searching for surface gold: gold-mining on this field is now confined to gully-raking...

The principal work has been mere gully-raking or surfacing in the bed of the creek.
Where gullies were worked to a shallow depth, the process was known as 'gully raking'.
The fossicker goes gully-raking into old gullies and worked-out creeks.

单词	gully-raking
释义	gully-raking noun [mass noun] Australian /NZ historical 1The practice of rounding up or stealing unbranded livestock from remote areas: everybody does a spot of gully-raking now and then... I was gully-raking with a mate in the mountains at the back of Richmond. I had now to resort to what is termed moonlighting and gully-raking. Cattle duffing and gully-raking for wandered livestock were in some cases a prelude to bushranging. 2The practice of searching for surface gold: gold-mining on this field is now confined to gully-raking... The principal work has been mere gully-raking or surfacing in the bed of the creek. Where gullies were worked to a shallow depth, the process was known as 'gully raking'. The fossicker goes gully-raking into old gullies and worked-out creeks.
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