(obsolete, Australia) The lyrebird.
(obsolete, Australia) The lyrebird.
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(Australia) A bullroarer.
(US, slang, obsolete) A steam locomotive.
Obsolete American slang for a steam locomotive, particularly used by sailors who applied the term to the loud, powerful machines they encountered on land. The word suggests the bull-like strength and noise of the engine. Largely disappeared from use as steam locomotives themselves became obsolete.
(AU) A bull living in (or bred in) the wild; a feral bull in the outback.
(Australia, and, New Zealand, _, colloquial, now, _, historical) A person (usually a man) who drives a cart pulled by a team of bullocks.