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Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases ...
See Pine. Post - and - Rail Tea, slang name for strong bush-tea: so called
because large bits of the tea, or supposed tea, float about in the billy, which are
compared by a strong imagination to the posts and rails of the wooden fence so
frequent ...
Edward Ellis Morris, 2011
2
In the Land of the Magic Pudding: A Gastronomic Miscellany
This is post-and-rail tea, brewed in an old blackened billy (which is itself an
Australian invention). You may have a little sugar in the tea, but do not spoil it by
adding milk. Perhaps you have sipped the most expensive Ceylon or China tea
from ...
3
Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase
and Fable
In Australia roughly made tea in which the stalks are floating is called post-and-
rail tea. Post captain. A term used in the Navy from about 1730 to 1830 to
distinguish an officer who held a captain's commission from one of inferior rank
who was ...
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, 2001
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Land, Labor
and Gold: Or, Two Years in Victoria : with ...
Post-and-rail tea, that is, a collection of sticks, rather than of tea-leaves ; and Jack
- the-painter tea, that is, a green preparation of leaves of some kind, which taste
like a mixture of copperas and verdigris, and leave a green scum on the infusion,
...
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Henry Mundy: A Young Australian Pioneer
I did not like to display my ignorance so much as what he meant by post and rail
tea. 1 stayed with the hutkeeper over an hour, Strawberry and Brindle in the
meantime had strolled off with the dray among the green grass and white clover ...
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Our Antipodes; or, Residence
and rambles in the Australasian ...
He was waited upon by a constable, who cooked his convict ration of beef, bread,
and potatoes, and, I suppose, made his 'post and rail' tea sweetened with brown
sugar. The prisoner was as poor a philosopher as a patriot; he had not coumge ...
Godfrey Charles MUNDY, 1857
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One Skin for an Overlander
There were steaming cauldrons of thoroughly stewed post and rail tea, dozens of
pies filled with native cherry, flans of wild grape and blackfella apple and quart
pots of Scotch Coffee, the coarsely ground scorched wheat. Jesus Bonifacio was
...
Robert Denis Whittle, 2007
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The Challicum Sketch Book, 1842-53,
and Supplementary ...
'Hysonskin' was recorded as 'post-and-rail' tea in Edward E. Morris's Austral
English (1898). 2 Robinson, op. cit, MS. 98-101, VHM 47,152. 3 Urquhart's
manager was Christopher or 'Jacky Jacky' Glendinning. 4 Robinson, MS. 97-101,
215-23; ...
Duncan Elphinstone Cooper, Philip L. Brown, 1987
9
Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy
The mania was in full swing, and every able-bodied man thirsted for the bush and
pined to ride in the dust behind masses of smelling sheep and live on an
unchanging diet of mutton chops, unleavened damper, and post-and-rail tea. It
was ...
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Australian words
and their origins
In the phr. post and rail tea, a coarse tea of inferior quality, so-called because
particles of stalk, etc., float on its surface (but see also quot. 1907, sense 2 b.).
1848 Sydney Morning Herald 5 Oct. 4/3 Awful accounts related of cruel masters,
...
