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Examples
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Soon Luke was shearing his two hundred-plus a day six days a week, a quid a hundred; and this with the narrow handpiece resembling a boggi lizard, hence its name.
The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977
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Not too often a gun shearer will give up the boggi for a saddle.
The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977
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It was grueling work; bending from his height with a sheep clamped between his knees, sweeping his boggi in blows the length of the sheep’s body to free the wool in one piece and leave as few second cuts as possible, close enough to the loose kinky skin to please the shed boss, who would be down in a second on any shearer not conforming to his rigorous standards.
The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977
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