scrub dasher

noun

Someone who travels at speed through the scrub, especially chasing wild or lost livestock.

First used 19th c.
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Meanings

nounscrub dasher (plural scrub dashers)

plural scrub dashers

  1. AustraliaSomeone who travels at speed through the scrub, especially chasing wild or lost livestock.First known use 19th c.

    ‘Grandma driving like a wild old scrub dasher.’

    2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 227
    1 more example

    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
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