shear-blades

Updated: May 17, 2025

They got very little from me, as I had no surplus food to spare. Nicholls told me they had some tin billies and shear-blades in the camp, and I noticed that one of the first batch we saw had a small piece of coarse cloth on; another had a piece of horse's girth webbing.

Ernest Giles - Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,