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Meaning of tin dog | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A noise-making device, often constructed ad hoc from materials to hand, used by a farmer to get sheep or cattle moving.

Australia

Examples

“2005 October 30, Bruce Simpson, interviewed on Landline, Australian Broadcasting Commission, transcript, I was with the cattle on my own at that stage, and to get them going, I inserted a few stones in the quart pot and used that as a tin dog. It got the cattle moving.”
“1993, Don Munday, Tin Dog, Damper and Dust, autobiography.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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