mickery

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Noun

mickery (plural mickeries)

  1. (Australia) A soak dug into the ground.
    • 1931, Michael Terry, Hidden Wealth and Hiding People, London: Putnam, →OCLC, page 232:
      He doesn't herd his cattle on to puny native supplies; he digs wells and mickeries, equips them with troughs []