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Bushranger logo #10101) Woodsman
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Bushranger logo #21000 Bushrangers, or bush rangers, originally referred to runaway convicts in the early years of the British settlement of Australia who had the survival skills necessary to use the Australian bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities. The term `bushranger` then evolved to refer to those who abandoned social rights and privileges to take up `rob......
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Bushranger logo #21000[4WD] The Bushranger (also known as Bushrangie) is an Australian 4wd buggy made by John E Davis Motor Works derived from the British Dakar but is considerably different, although both use Range Rover parts. Options like roofs, front and rear butterfly doors and canvas doors and roofs were available as well. Little is known about the vehicle...
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Bushranger logo #21000[horse] Bushranger (1930–1937) was an American Thoroughbred steeplechase racehorse. Prepared for flat racing, at age two the grandson of Man o` War demonstrated little ability in that venue and as such his owner decided to try him in steeplechase racing. In the hands of future Hall of Fame steeplechase trainer J. Howard Lewis, Bushranger ...
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Bushranger logo #21002• (n.) One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush.
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bushranger logo #21003any of the bandits of the Australian bush, or outback, who harassed the settlers, miners, and Aborigines of the frontier in the late 18th and 19th ... [1 related articles]
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bushranger logo #20688Australian armed robber of the 19th century. The first bushrangers were escaped convicts. The last gang was led by Ned Kelly and his brother Dan in 1878-80. They form the subject of many...
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Bushranger logo #20972Bush'ran`ger noun One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush.
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Bushranger logo #23224Outlaw, analogous to the outlaws of the American Wild West (some goodies, some baddies).
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Bushranger logo #21217Bushrangers were Australian highwaymen, formerly escaped convicts living in the wild countryside (bush) and subsiting by plunder and extortion on the property of all and sundry within their reach. Considerable gangs of these lawless characters were sometimes collected, a body of fifty holding part of New South Wales in terror about 1830. A gang of ...
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bushranger logo #23807Highwayman, outlaw
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bushranger logo #21221Australian armed robber of the 19th century. The first bushrangers were escaped convicts. The last gang was led by Ned Kelly and his brother Dan in 1878–80. They form the subject of many Australian ballads
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bushranger logo #21199a person who lives in the bush or woods. · · a person who lives by robbing travelers and isolated homesteads in the bush. · a person who drives a hard, and sometimes dishonest, bargain.
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Bushranger logo #23809highwayman, outlaw
Found on https://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html
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