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单词 shearers' cook
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Definition of shearers' cook in English:

shearers' cook

noun
Australian
  • A person employed on a sheep station during the shearing season to prepare meals for the shearers.

    the dog was exhausted, and I asked the shearers' cook for scraps
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The man who earned the most money of all on the station was the shearers' cook.
    • He bought the bus from a shearer's cook, who'd travelled in it from farm to station to farm station.
    • The shearers' cooks lived tough and usually poor lives.
    • He survived a period as a shearers' cook with only two stand-up fights.
    • The job of shearer's cook is scary, as these shearers are very demanding when it comes to their food.
    • The shearers' cook is a recognisable character in Australian literature and folklore.
    • There could be friction between the station cook and the shearers' cook.
    • There was a fight between the shearers' cook and his assistant.
    • Not even a shearers' cook could keep these boys sated.
    • The shearers' cook saw the animal was a ram and refused to accept it.
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