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bullocky

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bullocky [ˈbʊləkɪ]
n pl -ockies
(Business / Professions) Austral and NZ informal the driver of a team of bullocks
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Adj.1.bullocky - resembling a bullock in strength and power; "thick bullocky shoulders"
strong - having strength or power greater than average or expected; "a strong radio signal"; "strong medicine"; "a strong man"
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This group, known as the 'Darwin Detachment' (and administered by the 1st Military District (9)), installed themselves at the abandoned Vestey's Meatworks at Bullocky Point, and were responsible for building fortifications, coastal gun positions and quarters on the headland behind Emery and Elliott Points.
'And the Sphinx smiled' Aubrey and Hilda Abbott, Darwin, 1937-46 by Rosenzweig, Paul A. / Sabretache
He knew many Aborigines well as a boy and later as a bullocky.
Joseph Furphy and genocide by Partington, Geoffrey / National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
I might, however, take you to goldfields, silver and copper fields, to abandoned railways sidings, bullocky trading routes and to agricultural regions established too far into the desert.
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