a large brand used bycattle-stealers to cover the owner's brand. See dufferand cattle-duffer.
1857. Frederic De Brebant Cooper, `Wild Adventures inAustralia,' p. 104:
«. . . This person was an `old hand,' and got into sometrouble on the other side (i.e. the Bathurst side) by using a`frying-pan brand.' He was stock-keeping in that quarter, andwas rather given to `gulley-raking.' One fine day it appearshe ran in three bullocks belonging to a neighbouring squatter,and clapt his brand on the top of the other so as to effaceit.»
(Teut. brand new.) Quite new. This word is provincial in the North of England, and is used in collo...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose