sleeping rough or poorly (as in a "doss-house")
doughboy: kind of dumpling
drover: one who "droves" cattle or sheep.
droving: driving on horseback cattle or sheep from where they were
fattened to a a city, or later, a rail-head.
drown the miller: to add too much water to flour when cooking.
Used metaphorically in story.

fossick: pick over areas for gold. Not mining as such.
half-caser: Two shillings and sixpence. As a coin, a half-crown.
half-sov.: a coin worth half a pound (sovereign)

Gladesville: Sydney suburb--site of mental hospital.
goanna: various kinds of monitor lizards. Can be quite a size.

Homebush: Saleyard, market area in Sydney
humpy: originally an aboriginal shelter (=gunyah); extended to a
settler's hut

jackaroo: (Jack + kangaroo; sometimes jackeroo)--someone, in early
days a new immigrant from England, learning to work on a
sheep/cattle station (U.S. "ranch")
jumbuck: a sheep (best known from Waltzing Matilda: "where's that
jolly jumbuck, you've got in your tucker bag".

larrikin: anything from a disrespectful young man to a violent member
of a gang ("push"). Was considered a major social problem in
Sydney of the 1880's to 1900. The _Bulletin_, a magazine in
which much of Lawson was published, spoke of the "aggressive,
soft-hatted "stoush brigade". Anyone today who is disrespectful of
authority or convention is said to show the larrikin element in the
Australian character.
larrikiness: jocular feminine form
leather-jacket: kind of pancake (more often a fish, these days)
lucerne: cattle feed-a leguminous plant, alfalfa in US
lumper: labourer; esp. on wharves?

mallee: dwarfed eucalyptus trees growing in very poor soil and under
harsh rainfall conditions. Usually many stems emerging from the
ground, creating a low thicket.
Maoriland: Lawson's name for New Zealand
marine, dead: see dead
mooching: wandering idly, not going anywhere in particular
mug: gullible person, a con-man's 'mark' (potential victim)
mulga: Acacia sp. ("wattle" in Australian) especially Acacia aneura;
growing in semi-desert conditions. Used as a description of such
a harsh region.
mullock: the tailings left after gold has been removed. In Lawson
generally mud (alluvial) rather than rock
myall: aboriginal living in a traditional--pre-conquest--manner

narked: annoyed
navvies: labourers (especially making roads, railways; originally
c