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Tarkoititko ranger?

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  1. (Australia, historical) A convict or outlaw who escapes to the bush to avoid capture; a roving bandit who lives in the bush.
  2. (Australia, obsolete) A person skilled in bushcraft.

Esimerkit

  • We each discharged a shot in the direction of the explosion by the bushrangers, for we had no other guide in aiming, owing to the night being so very dark, which was rendered denser by the mizzling rain which had been falling all day.
  • The retribution for those who failed to help bushrangers could be severe. Thomas Kenton was imprisoned in 1825, accused of having allowed Matthew Brady to escape, but was later murdered by the bushranger as an informer.28
  • The live-and-let-live attitude hampered the police in tracking bushrangers. A few squatters like John Walsh gave the bushrangers active support, but the police were thwarted as much by the unwillingness of landowners generally to report what they knew about the bushrangers or to take any active steps against them.
  • Mr Hovell lacks all the qualities befitting a bushranger.

Taivutusmuodot

Monikkobushrangers

(Australia, historical) A convict or outlaw who escapes to the bush to avoid capture; a roving bandit who lives in the bush.

William Strutt's Bushrangers on the St Kilda Road, painted in 1887, depicts what Strutt described as "one of the most daring robberies attempted in Victoria" in 1852.

(Australia, historical) A convict or outlaw who escapes to the bush to avoid capture; a roving bandit who lives in the bush.

A bushranger on horseback being chased by the police in Hard-pressed (Flight of a Bushranger), painted by S. T. Gill, c. 1853

(Australia, historical) A convict or outlaw who escapes to the bush to avoid capture; a roving bandit who lives in the bush.

Convict artist Joseph Lycett's 1825 painting of the Nepean River shows a gang of bushrangers with guns.