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mateship

n. 1 (context countable and uncountable nautical English) The post of mate on a ship; a posting as mate. 2 (context countable whaling obsolete English) A type of contract between ships to cooperate and share the proceeds of an expedition. 3 (context uncountable English) fellowship; companionship. 4 (context uncountable Australia NZ English) friendship, particularly between men, such as develops in shared adversity; solidarity. 5 (context countable zoology psychology anthropology English) A relationship based on mating.

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Mateship

Mateship is an Australian cultural idiom that embodies equality, loyalty and friendship. There are two types of mateship, the inclusive and the exclusive; the inclusive is in relation to a shared situation (e.g., employment, sports, or hardship), whereas the exclusive type is toward a third party (e.g., a person that you have just met). Russel Ward, in The Australian Legend (1958), saw the concept as a central one to the Australian people. Mateship derives from mate, meaning friend, commonly used in Australia as an amicable form of address. Mateship can also be expressed in such qualities as loyalty to one's mates in preference to society at large.

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That teach those Bushmen kindness: The mateship born of barren lands, Of toil and thirst and danger-- The camp-fare for the stranger set, The first place to the stranger.

The College Wreck who sunk beneath, Then rose above his shame, Tramps West in mateship with the man Who cannot write his name.

And he tracks their hearts in mateship, and he tracks them out alone-- Seeking for the power to sway them, till he finds it in his own, Feels what they feel, loves what they love, learns to hate what they condemn, Takes his pen in tears and triumph, and he writes it down for them.

They remade me into the god of mateship, freedom, hard work and good times.

Jim declared it was too thick, if anythin--yet they were mates Bill for Freetrade--Jim, Protection--argued as to which was best For the welfare of the workers--and their mateship stood the test!

He hurried up to get her through, when, close beside his shoot, He saw a large and ancient shoe, in mateship with a boot.

Which reminds me of an incident in the mateship of Bob Lucas and Jim Barnes, professional shearers, west of the Darling River.

They yield it everywhere, And mateship is a thing that you Must take for granted there.

He has seen all his mates killed and then all his new pals killed, and, then, because the idea of friendship becomes impossible, mateship now too awful to contemplate, the replacements are received as blank-eyed strangers, who come at night to huddle beside you in the trenches.