1885. R. M. Praed, `Australian Life,' p. 79:
"Many men rode through the sliprails and turned out their horses."
1891. Canon Goodman, `Church in Victoria during Episcopate of Bishop Perry,' p. 98:
"Some careless person had neglected to replace the slip-rails of the paddock into which his horses had been turned the previous evening."
1896. H. Lawson, `When the World was Wide,' p. 104:
"Then loudly she screamed: it was only to drown
The treacherous clatter of slip-rails let down."
<hw>Sloth, Native</hw>, i.q. <i>Native Bear</i>. See <i>Bear</i>, and <i>Koala</i>.
<hw>Slusher</hw>, or <hw>Slushy</hw>, <i>n</i>. cook's assistant at shearing-time on a station.
1890. `The Argus,' Sept.20, p.13, col. 6: