cheque: wages for a full season of sheep-shearing; meant to last until the next year, including a family, but often ‘blued’ in a ‘spree’
chyack: (chy-ike) like chaffing; to tease, mildly abuse
cocky: a farmer, esp. dairy farmers (= ‘cow-cockies’)
cubby-house, or cubby: Children’s playhouse (“Wendy house” is commercial form))
Darlinghurst: Sydney suburb, where the gaol was in those days
dead marine: empty beer bottle
dossing: sleeping rough or poorly (as in a “doss-house”)
doughboy: kind of dumpling
drover: one who “droves” cattle or sheep.
droving: driving on horseback cattle or sheep from where they were fattened to a a city, or later, a rail-head.