scrub-cattle

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

n.


escaped cattle that run wild in the scrub, used as a collective plural of Scrubber (q.v.).

1860. A. L. Gordon, `The Sick Stockrider' [in `Bush-Ballads,'1876], p. 8:

«'Twas merry 'mid the blackwoods, when we spied the station roofs,

To wheel the wild scrub-cattle at the yard,

With a running fire of stock-whips and a fiery run of hoofs,

Oh! the hardest day was never then too hard.»

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