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- noun Australia, slang, pathology, obsolete An illness afflicting
shearers , characterised by vomiting after meals and presumed to have been due to the hard work of shearing bent over in stifling heat (though more likely due to a local grass).
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Ultimately of Australian Aboriginal derivation; named for the Belyando River of central Queensland. The expression dates from no later 1891, from when it was in use in a shearer′s song.
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