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scrub dasher

scrub dasher noun: someone who travels at speed through the scrub, especially chasing wild or lost livestock.

Noun

scrub dasher (plural scrub dashers)

  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

Forms of scrub dasher

pluralscrub dashers

Questions about scrub dasher

What does scrub dasher mean?
Scrub dasher means someone who travels at speed through the scrub, especially chasing wild or lost livestock.
What part of speech is scrub dasher?
Scrub dasher is a noun.
What is the plural of scrub dasher?
The plural of scrub dasher is scrub dashers.

Words near scrub dasher in the dictionary

  1. scrub boards
  2. scrub brush
  3. scrub brushes
  4. scrub bull
  5. scrub bulls
  6. scrub dasher
  7. scrub dashers
  8. scrub down
  9. scrub fowl
  10. scrub gun
  11. scrub guns

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