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run
n. 1) Tract of land over which sheep orcattle may graze. It is curious that what in England is call...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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run
1) A small stream or rivulet; a word common in the Southern and Western States, though sometimes hea...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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run-about
n. and adj. Run-abouts are cattle left to graze at will,and the runabout – yard is the enclosure fo...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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run-hunting
exploring for a new run. See Run. 1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Squatter's Dream,' c. xix. p. 238: «What...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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hard run
To be hard pressed; and especially to be in want of money. The same as hard pushed. We knew the Tam...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to cut and run
To be off; to be gone.--Holloway's Prov. Dictionary. Originally a nautical term. To cut the cable o...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to run one's face
To make use of one's credit. 'To run one's face for a thing,' is to get it on tick. Any one who can...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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run of stones
A pair of mill-stones is called a run of stones when in operation or placed in a mill. The Rochester...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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rings, to run round
: to beat out and out. Apicturesque bit of Australian slang. One runner runs straightto the goal, th...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris