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sundowner
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n. 1 (context Australia obsolete English) An itinerant worker, such as a swagman, who arrives at a farm too late in the day to do any work, but readily accepts food and lodging. 2 (context Australia obsolete English) An itinerant worker, a swagman. 3 (context ...
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A Sundowner , in colloquial British English , is an alcoholic drink taken after completing the day's work, usually at sundown . The sundowner has been referenced in literature since the 1950s.
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n. a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown a drink taken at sundown
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Sundowner \Sun"down`er\, n. A tramp or vagabond in the Australian bush; -- so called from his coming to sheep stations at sunset of ask for supper and a bed, when it is too late to work; -- called also traveler and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners). ...
Usage examples of sundowner.
The shed cut out within three weeks and the two sundowners took the track again, Brummy with two pounds odd in his pocket--he having negotiated his cheque at the shed.
Besides being the site of boutiques, shell shops, and an immensely popular cookie store, the Wharf was the location of the Black Pearl, the Candy Store, and the Raw Bar, watery holes where hundreds of yachties, groupies, and tourists gravitated each day to mill inside and out, sipping sundowners.
In deserts with never a tramline to follow by, The Israelite horde went roaming abroad Like so many sundowners out on the wallaby.
Sundowner could run to a bagpiper to pipe them in to the messroom table.
Now there were regular stages at each night's stop, thatched rondavels and windmills to raise water from the deep bores, servants living permanently at each station to service the rest houses, providing meals and hot baths and a log fire in the hearth on those crisp frosty nights of the Kalahari winter, even paraffin refrigerators manufacturing heavenly ice for the sundowner whisky in the fierce summer heat.
Between the sundowners, Santa Anas, and the desiccated landscape, the stage is set for the arsonist's match.
Ed planted his Vasque Sundowners on the floor, folded his arms over his chest.