КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «GUM DIGGER»
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The gum- digger was his own employer. He was free to live his life just as he
wished to live it. Whatever the legal position may have been, nobody objected to
his establishing either a temporary or permanent camp on government-owned
land.
Roto leans against whare up LC, his head sinks sadly on his breast ) CLOSED
1N Scene Two The Wharepuni of Rewi at Ariki 2nd Grooves Enter Prescott
disguised as Gum digger L. H Carries swag and gum shovel He looks round and
off RH ...
George Leitch, Adrian Kiernander, 1990
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
'Taffrail', The Sub, 1917. gum(-)chum. An American soldier: 1942 + . Ex the
constant request '(Got) any gum chum?' gum-digger. A dentist: NZ and Aus.:
since ca. 1880. (B., 1941 and 1942.) Cf. gum-puncher; there is a pun on the kauri
-gum.
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The Lingo Dictionary: Of Favourite Australian Words and Phrases
In Victoria, a public transport employee. gum digger A dentist. Also a gum
puncher. gummies Slang for gumboots. gumsucker A disparaging name for a
Victorian. gum tree The Australian eucalypt. Up a gum tree is to be in all sorts of
strife.
Armed with a long steel spear and shovel the gum- digger tramped over the
swampy ground The Kauri is the largest as well as the oldest tree growing in New
Zealand. To the ancient Kauri forests is probably due the huge gum deposits now
...
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A Personal Kiwi-Yankee Dictionary
No one here has ever heard of a Caboose gum digger: many years ago, a major
industry, particularly in the Co- romandel Peninsula was digging up the solidified
sap of the Kauri tree. This 'Kauri gum' was exported for use in the manufacture ...
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Down Under - Over Easy: How I Couch Surfed My Way to a Less ...
Imagine doing this with rain pouring down and pooling in the recesses you have
made with your shovel and sweat equity. Imagine doing this with the
overpowering summer sun beating down for weeks on end. This was the life of a
gum digger ...
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Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of ...
The Commission held a sitting at the School-house, Poroti, on the l2th May, when
the following witnesses were present and tendered evidence: Nicholas Alach,
farmer and gum-digger, of Kokupu; William Snelgar, farmer, of Ruatangatu; Victor
...
... to the setting-up of the Department, beyond saying that the work of the
Department, which was begun in November, 1914, has been continued during
the present year, and has been beneficial to the gum-digger and the industry
generally.
New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, 1919
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Totems and Teachers: Key Figures in the History of Anthropology
Choosing for his thesis the topic (unusual for the time) of a marginal economic
institution, kaori-gum extraction, he joined his study of documentary evidence
with brief fieldwork among the gum-digger workers, an ethnically diverse group
that ...
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Cool collections: NZ's best unusual museums
It's a treasure trove of both gum digger paraphernalia and early settler domestic history with lifelike mannequins modelled after real early ... «New Zealand Herald, Окт 12»
