Part 37 (1/2)

<hw>Bull-Oak</hw>, n See Oak

<hw>Bullocky</hw>, n and adj a bullockdriver”

In the bush all the heavy hauling is done with bullock-drays

It is quite a coht up the country to see teams of a dozen and upwards” (B and L)

1890 Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reforular bullocky boy”

<hw>Bull-puncher</hw>, or <hw>Bullock-puncher</hw>, n slang for a bullockdriver According to Barrere and Leland's `Slang Dictionary,' the word has a so in America, where it means a drover See Punch

1872 C N Eden, `My Wife and I in Queensland,' p 49:

”The `bull-puncher,' as bullock-drivers are fa,' in `Queenslander,' Oct 4:

”The stockmen and the bushmen and the shepherds leave the station, And the hardy bullock-punchers throw aside their occupation”

1889 Cassell's `Picturesque Australasia,' vol iv p 143:

”These teams would comprise from five to six pairs of bullocks each, and were driven by a man euphoniously ter, fastened to a supple stick seven feet long ”

<hw>Bull-rout</hw>, n a fish of New South Wales, Centropogon robustus, Guenth, family Scorpaenidae

1882 Rev J E Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,'

p 48:

”It ehtThe fishers his fish to the surfaceWhen out of the water the noise of the bull-rout is loudest, and it spreads its gills and fins a little, so as to appear very forreat dread, and the name of bull-rout may possibly be a corruption of some native word”

<hw>Bull's-eye</hw>, n a fish of New South Wales, Priacanthus macracanthus, Cuvand Val

Priacanthus, says Guenther, is a percoid fish with short snout, lower jaw and chin proenerally The eye large, and the colour red, pink, or silvery

1884 E P Ramsay, `Fisheries Exhibition Literature,' vol v

p 311:

”Another good table-fish is the `bull's-eye,' a beautiful salmon-red fish with small scalesAt times it enters the harbours in considerable nuular”

<hw>Bulls-wool</hw>, n colloquial naybark-tree (qv)

This is a dry finely fibrous substance, easily disintegrated by rubbing between the hands It for a fire in the bush, and is largely employed for that purpose It is not unlike the matted hair of a bull, and is reddish in colour, hence perhaps this nickname, which is common in the Tasmanian bush

<hw>Bully</hw>, n a Tasmanian fish, Blennius tasmanianus, Richards, family Blennidae