short for superintendent,sc. of a station.
1870. A. L. Gordon, `Bush Ballads,' p. 23:
«What's up with our super to-night? The man's mad.»
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. ix. p. 83:
«That super's a growlin' ignorant beggar as runs a feller fromdaylight to dark for nothing at all.»
1890. `The Argus,' June 10, p. 4, col. 1:
«He . . . bragged of how he had bested the super who triedto `wing him' in the scrub.»