moke
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You offers in this 'ere paper a bloomin' quid to any bloke as gives information about your moke.
From Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Provided all one's kit had been put on a cart, the easiest way was often to let the moke go where it liked, and walk on oneself without it.
From A Kut Prisoner by H. C. W. Bishop
And likewise Ned to his masthead he runs a rag of the Queen’s, With a rusty sword and a moke on board to bray like the Horse Marines.
From The Battle of the Bays by Sir Owen Seaman
I asked the name of Motee’s moke, which he said was his next best one, and found that it was called Mr. Gladstone!
From The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. by M. Horace (Matthew Horace) Hayes
The gawky camel shuffles along, a picture of woe with a load of 2 cwt. to 4 cwt., whilst the little moke trips smartly with almost an equal weight upon his back.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh
“You been beefin’ with mokes already,” Mike said to me.
From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2015
Every Runnymede boundary man was expected to find himself in horses; and Jack, on being rated, had purchased the two quietest and most shapeless mokes on the station—or, indeed, off it.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
Well, the point of that story is that the pace of that old coach and six mokes, I assure you, has always seemed to me faster than any motor I've ever driven.
From Love and Lucy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
I've got a pair of snow-white mokes," he says, "and I've bought a coster's shallow.
From The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography by David Christie Murray
Mess-hall waiters are sometimes called "mokes," while at other times the names of certain exalted dignitaries of the Navy Department, or of the academy, are applied to them.
From American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' by Wallace Morgan