Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as swagman, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Australia A swagman.

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Examples

  • It's a ticklish thing to think that a spark of fire any where about the place might ruin me, and to know at the same time that every man about the run and every swagsman that passes along have matches in their pocket.

    Harry Heathcote of Gangoil Anthony Trollope 1848

  • It’s a ticklish thing to think that a spark of fire any where about the place might ruin me, and to know at the same time that every man about the run and every swagsman that passes along have matches in their pocket.

    Harry Heathcote of Gangoil 2004

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