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Sturt   Listen
noun
Sturt  n.  
1.
Disturbance; annoyance; care. (Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.) "Sturt and care."
2.
(Mining) A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits.





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"Sturt" Quotes from Famous Books



... by the Gwydir only eight miles below where I had crossed that river. Immediately below the junction of the Gwydir (which is in latitude 29 degrees 30 minutes 27 seconds, longitude 148 degrees 13 minutes 20 seconds) the course of the river continues southward of west, directly towards where Captain Sturt discovered the River Darling; and I could no longer doubt that this was the same river. I therefore returned to the party, determined to explore the ...
— Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete • Charles Sturt
... existed, as to the reality of the existence of this continent, were dispelled, and the position of its western shores was well established. Dampier discovered a beautiful flower of the pea family known as the Clianthus Dampierii. In 1845 Captain Sturt found the same flower on his Central Australian expedition, and it is now generally known as Sturt's Desert Pea, but it is properly named in its botanical classification, after its ...
— Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration • Ernest Giles


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