blacktracker
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An Aboriginal person employed by police to track down fugitives or lost people, especially in the bush.
Australian usage
Example Sentences
- "At dawn the next day he was away to the Mountain, and with a black-tracker at his heels, explored as much of that wilderness of gully and chasm as nature permitted to him."
- "[N]o one is exempt from the guilt: for we as Aboriginal people were our own blacktracker hunting down Musquito who had in turn hunted down others."