<hw>Drafting-stick</hw>, <i>n</i>. a stick used in drafting
cattle.

1884. Rolf Boldrewood, `Melbourne Memories,' c. x. p. 72:

"We . . . armed ourselves with drafting-sticks and resolutely
faced it."

<hw>Drafting-yard</hw>, <i>n</i>. a yard for drafting cattle.

1890. `The Argus,' Aug. 16, p. 13, col. 1:

"There were drafting-yards and a tank a hundred yards off,
but no garden."

<hw>Dray</hw>, <i>n</i>. an ordinary cart for goods. See
quotation, 1872.

1833. C. Sturt, `Southern Australia,' vol. i. Intro. p. xlix:

"They send their produce to the market . . . receiving supplies
for home consumption on the return of their drays or carts from
thence."

1872. C. H. Eden, "My Wife and I in Queensland,' p. 31:

"A horse dray, as known in Australia, is by no means the
enormous thing its name would signify, but simply an ordinary
cart on two wheels without springs." [There are also
spring-drays.]

1886. H. C. Kendall, `Poems,' p. 41:

"One told by camp fires when the station drays
Were housed and hidden, forty years ago."

<hw>Dromicia</hw>, <i>n</i>. the scientific name of the
Australian <i>Dormouse Phalangers</i>, or little
<i>Opossum</i>- or <i>Flying-Mice</i>, as they are locally
called. See <i>Opossum</i>, <i>Opossum-mouse</i>, and
<i>Phalanger</i>. They are not really the "Flying"-Mice or
Flying-phalanger, as they have only an incipient parachute, but
they are nearly related to the <i>Pigmy Petaurists</i> (q.v.)
or small <i>Flying-Phalangers</i>. (Grk. <i>dromikos</i>, good
at running, or swift.)

<hw>Drongo</hw>, <i>n</i>. This bird-name was "given by Le
Vaillant in the form <i>drongeur</i> to a South African bird
afterwards known as the Musical Drongo, <i>Dicrurus
musicus</i>, then extended to numerous . . . fly-catching,
crow-like birds." (`Century.') The name is applied in
Australia to <i>Chibia bracteata</i>, Gould, which is called
the <i>Spangled Drongo</i>.

1895. W. 0. Legge, `Australasian Association for the
Advancement of Science' (Brisbane), p. 448:

"There being but one member of the interesting Asiatic genus
<i>Drongo</i> in Australia, it was thought best to characterize
it simply as the <i>Drongo</i> without any qualifying term."

<hw>Drop</hw>, <i>n</i>. (Slang.) To "have the drop on" is to
forestall, gain advantage over, especially by covering with a
revolver.

It is curious that while an American magazine calls this phrase
Australian (see quotation), the `D