bullocker
(ˈbʊləkə(r))
[f. bullock n. + -er1.]
1. A bullock-driver. Austral. and N.Z.
| 1889 Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang. s.v. Bullocky, Bullock[e]rs in Australia are as proverbial as bargees or Billingsgate fishwives in England for the forcibleness of their language. 1894 J. K. Arthur Kangaroo & Kauri ii. ii. 91, I once saw..a bullocker who was working along with his team. |
2. A ship used for carrying cattle.
| 1915 J. Sibree Naturalist in Madagascar ii. 20 ‘Bullockers’..were still considered good enough to convey from two to three hundred oxen from Tamatave to Port Louis or Réunion. |