Blacktracker

Quick meaning: Blacktracker is a noun meaning (Australia, now historical) An Aboriginal person employed by police to track down fugitives or lost people, especially in the bush.

Meaning

(Australia, now historical) An Aboriginal person employed by police to track down fugitives or lost people, especially in the bush.

Example Sentences

[N]o one is exempt from the guilt: for we as Aboriginal people were our own blacktracker hunting down Musquito who had in turn hunted down others.

At dawn the next day he was away to the Mountain, and with a black-tracker at his heels, explored as much of that wilderness of gully and chasm as nature permitted to him.

Word Forms

• blacktrackers
• black tracker
• black-tracker

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