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  • noun An overflow or spillage.

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From Clancy of the Overflow, a character in a poem of that name (also in The Man from Snowy River) by Australian poet Banjo Patterson.

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  • "In my wild erratic fancy visions come to me of Clancy

    Gone a-droving 'down the Cooper' where the Western drovers go;

    As the stock are slowly stringing, Clancy rides behind them singing,

    For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know."

    - A.B. Patterson, Clancy of the Overflow

    August 5, 2022