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B.S. n. See BULLSH.
BABBLING BROOK; BABBLER n. An Army cook. Also BABBLINS.
BACK CHAT n. An impertinent bandying of words.
BACK IN ONE'S CART v. Interferw.
BAGS [The] n. A parapet.
BANGER n. A sausage.
BANJO n. A shovel. SWING THE BANJO — Dig.
BANK n. The movement of an aeroplane in turning on its side in changing direction.
BANTAM n. A short man.
BARE adj. Mere. 'A bare prive' - A mere private.
BARGE v. 'Barge up to' - approach.
BARRAGE n. (Fr.) (1) A large number of shells bursting in the one area; (2) A commotion; (3) A display of mental, moral or physical force. 'To put up a barrage' - to confound. ' A gas barrage' — an oration or sermon. 'A barrage of foul air' — a stench. 'A barrage of hot air' - a flow of vituperative, blasphemous or obscene language.
BASE WALLAH n. A person employed at the base.
BASS ATTACK n. A drinking bout. (A humorous perversion of 'Gas Attack.' 'Bass' is a kind of English beer).
BAT n. Language. Mesopotamia (Hindustani).
 
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Cross-staff : n. An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies.; n. A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.

 
Digger Dialects by W. H. Downing - Lothian Book Publishing, Melbourne and Sydney, 1919
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