Definition of station black in English:

station black

(also station boy)

noun

Australian historical

An Aborigine employed on a sheep or cattle station.
for years afterwards, station blacks remained anxious about their physical security
Example sentencesExamples
- In the south-west of Queensland station blacks arranged to have their dances and ceremonies coincide with local race-meetings.
- One young station black, accused of killing a friendly white, wept bitterly that the "devil devil" had got into him.
- Pastoralists were less willing to maintain and support 'station blacks', who in turn found it more difficult to survive on 'bush tucker'.
- The element of bluff, guile and counter-guile and hide and seek is strong on both sides, with the word getting out to the hunted group via a station black.
- 'Station blacks' who move between stations now act as messengers of danger to the squatters.
- Some weeks later the police came back shooting still more natives whether guilty or not - we lost twelve more of our station blacks.
- Back in '47 government made this place and shifted plenty of station blacks out ere.
- In her reminiscences, Margaret Young told of her husband burying 'twelve more of our station blacks' following a Native Mounted Police visit to Umbercollie.
- Now a station black, working cattle on a vast ranch, Jacky still had spells when civilization seemed just too complicated.
- One of the worst massacres of 'station blacks' was to take place nearby just three years later.

词汇	station black
释义	Definition of station black in English: station black (also station boy) noun Australian historical An Aborigine employed on a sheep or cattle station. for years afterwards, station blacks remained anxious about their physical security Example sentencesExamples In the south-west of Queensland station blacks arranged to have their dances and ceremonies coincide with local race-meetings. One young station black, accused of killing a friendly white, wept bitterly that the "devil devil" had got into him. Pastoralists were less willing to maintain and support 'station blacks', who in turn found it more difficult to survive on 'bush tucker'. The element of bluff, guile and counter-guile and hide and seek is strong on both sides, with the word getting out to the hunted group via a station black. 'Station blacks' who move between stations now act as messengers of danger to the squatters. Some weeks later the police came back shooting still more natives whether guilty or not - we lost twelve more of our station blacks. Back in '47 government made this place and shifted plenty of station blacks out ere. In her reminiscences, Margaret Young told of her husband burying 'twelve more of our station blacks' following a Native Mounted Police visit to Umbercollie. Now a station black, working cattle on a vast ranch, Jacky still had spells when civilization seemed just too complicated. One of the worst massacres of 'station blacks' was to take place nearby just three years later.
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