tin dog

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Contraction of tinned dog (any unappetizing tinned meat)

Tin Dog, Damper and Dust — title of autobiography by shearer Don Munday.

Literally, a dog figurine or model made out of metal
A noise-making device used by a farmer to get sheep or cattle moving. Almost any rough tin container with stones or containers within each other on a wire can be used. Some rattle-like devices are made commercially

2005: I was with the cattle on my own at that stage, and to get them going, I inserted a few stones in the quart pot and used that as a tin dog. It got the cattle moving. — stockman Bruce Simpson on the Australian Broadcasting Commission Landline program, 30 October 2005.

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