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单词 straitsman
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straitsman

/ˈstreɪtsmən /
noun (plural straitsmen) Australian
A person who lives on the Bass Strait Islands, in particular a seal-hunter of the 19th century: Captain Stokes quotes as his authority for the statement the straitsmen living on the islands...
  • For 30 years after his visit, the island was left to the Straitsmen, a renegade band of sealers and whalers who took aboriginal wives.
  • The direct descendants of Straitsmen and their aboriginal wives now practise the harvest of short-tailed shearwater chicks.
  • An old Straitsman who had for years been wandering all about them, hunting seals and mutton birds.
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