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scrub dasher en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (Australia) Someone who travels at speed through the scrub, especially chasing wild or lost livestock.
    • Mulga had won his spurs in an age when the scrub-dasher was still the most important man in the south-western cattle country. 1965, RH Conquest, Horses in the Kitchen:
    • ‘Grandma driving like a wild old scrub dasher.’ 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 227:

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