bush-faller

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


one who cuts down timber in thebush.

1882. `Pall Mall Gazette,' June 29, p. 2, col. 1:

«A broken-down, deserted shanty, inhabited once, perhaps, byrail-splitters or bush-fallers.» [`O.E.D.,' from which thisquotation is taken, puts (?) before the meaning; but «To fall» is not uncommon in Australia for «to fell.» ]

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