slip-rail

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

part of a fence so fitted that itcan be removed so as to serve as a gate. Used also for thegateway thus formed. Generally in the plural. Same as Slip-panel.

1870. A. L. Gordon, `Bush Ballads From the Wreck,' p. 24:

«Down with the slip-rails; stand back.»

1872. C. H. Eden, `My Wife and I in Queensland,' p. 43:

«He [a horse] would let down the slip-rails when shut into thestockyard, even if they were pegged, drawing the pegs out withhis teeth.»

1885. R. M. Praed, `Australian Life,' p. 79:

«Many men rode through the sliprails and turned out theirhorses.»

1891. Canon Goodman, `Church in Victoria during Episcopate ofBishop Perry,' p. 98:

«Some careless person had neglected to replace the slip-railsof the paddock into which his horses had been turned theprevious evening.»

1896. H. Lawson, `When the World was Wide,' p. 104:

«Then loudly she screamed: it was only to drown

The treacherous clatter of slip-rails let down.»

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