Dally

Definitions

1. Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.
2. A surname.
3. A New Zealand person of Croatian or other Balkan descent.
   New-Zealand, colloquial

Equivalents

Examples

“What matters is now if he tied hard and fast, / Or tumbled his steer⟳ with a dally.”

“We have⟳ known Mazagon and long-pod Beans to be thrown out of a dally, because they were full of seed!”

“The New Zealand wine industry and those who consume⟳ the wine it produces owe⟳ a huge debt of gratitude to the "Dallies" – the Croatians, and others from that part of eastern Europe who came here in the early 1900s and brought with them a passion for growing, making and drinking wine.”

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