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名詞

scrub dasher (複数形 scrub dashers)

1. (Australia) Someone who travels at speed through the scrub, especially chasing wild or lost livestock. [from 19th c.]
   • 1965, RH Conquest, Horses in the Kitchen:

     Mulga had won his spurs in an age when the scrub-dasher was still the most important man in the south-western cattle country.

   • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin 2003, p. 227:

     ‘Grandma driving like a wild old scrub dasher.’