DCHP-3

bush-ranger

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a settler in the bush (def. 5).

See: bush ((n.))(def. 5),bushman(def. 2)

Quotations

<i>a</i>1855
Among the bush rangers . . . was the chief Short Legs, who . . . happened to stumble near where the wounded and enraged bear was concealed.
1883
These timber roads are often exceedingly bewildering even to old experienced bush-rangers. . . .
2n. — Hist.

Quotations

1908
The next time he came to the ship, he was accompanied by the Captain's son, Ben, the poacher, dressed as a bushranger.
1938
Who can this be but young Pierre LeMoyne d'Iberville and his party of bush-rangers on his way to attack Rupert's House.
3n. — Obs.

a whisky peddler.

See: bush ((v.))(def. 3)

Quotations

1860
It is estimated that the number of Indians who have died within the last eighteen months from drinking whisky prepared by the bush-rangers of Victoria, is full four hundred.