"The desire of some to turn Van Diemen's Land into a large squatter's run, by the passing of the Impounding Act, was the immediate cause, he told us, of his taking up the project of a poor man's country elsewhere."
1870. `/Delta/,' `Studies in Rhyme,' p. 26:
"Of squatters' runs we've oft been told,
The People's Lands impairing."
1883. G. W. Rusden, `History of Australia,' vol. i. p. 73 [Note]:
"A run is the general term for the tract of country on which
Australians keep their stock, or allow them to `run.'"
(2) The bower of the <i>Bowerbird</i> (q.v.).
1840. `Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' p. 94:
"They are used by the birds as a playing-house, or `run,' as it is termed, and are used by the males to attract the females."
<hw>Run-about</hw>, <i>n</i>. and <i>adj</i>. <i>Run-abouts</i> are cattle left to graze at will, and the <i>runabout</i>-yard is the enclosure for homing them.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. xviii. p. 218: