Draught animal

• Pavlova so Much More Than Dessert to Aussies

On the sprawling sugar cane farms of far North Queensland where I grew up, and where a frosty summer pav in the fridge is as Australian as a melanoma, the crushing (harvesting) dominates life's cycle, starting in mid-winter and ending late November as the summer holidays loom. Then he'd deliver a literal high-speed standing ovation, standing in the "stirrups" and performing a hand-clapping, sky-punching display of exuberance which had us believing this cane carting business must be more fun than tying fire crackers to cane toads. Around November, with the swelling mulberry-coloured clouds muttering of the wet season's return, the madness would end. Dad would crown his last bin with a broken tree bough and leave it and a six-pack of Cairns Draught for the semi-trailer drivers. The soot w...

... black pudding (sausage made by cooking animal blood) was a perfectly reasonable item to place in...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 21, 2009

• Champion of the Breed

The dogs would be left picketed (tied to a stake or on a long chain) and the ice would melt and they were left in water and starving," she said. Diseases like rabies and distemper were also epidemic in the dogs, so they "became a threat to every other dog," she said. "This is why the RCMP shot them. "I believe the lawyers started (the controversy)," [Montcombroux] said. "The lawyers said, 'Well, they shot your dogs. Therefore, you are entitled to compensation.' " "In villages of northwest Greenland, there are 2,000 people and 10,000 dogs," he said. "Their entire means of land transport is the dogs -- no snow machines, no four-wheelers. They actually have a cultural prohibition against snowmobiles in order to maintain their connection to the land, and so they don't lose their young peo...

... amount of work on less food than any other animal," Peary wrote. Yet man has not been so kind in ret...The sled dogs are draught animals and love to pull sleds. "It's No. 1 charac...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• September 30, 2009

• Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents Marine Protected Area Regulations

..., nationality, overall length, maximum draught, net tonnage, propulsion type, call sign, registra... near Endeavour's black smokers are home to animal concentrations that can reach up to half a million...

• Canada Gazette Nbr. 6, March 12, 2003
• Part II - Official regulations
• Oceans Act