moke

Many a rhyming moke, Sense from rhyme sundered: Many wrote well, but not— Not the Six Hundred.

From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings

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

There was a fat man in a fireman's helmet and pyjamas, armed with a peashooter, riding a donkey backwards—and the moke wore two pairs of trousers!…

From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren

After delivering two dozen of the best, the moke turned round to sniff the cold corpse, but the corpse was still warm and smiling.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917 by Various

But I didn't want to be nasty, only I am regular shook on this old moke, I believe, and he's as square as Mr. Falkland's dogcart horse.'

From Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields by Rolf Boldrewood

“You been beefin’ with mokes already,” Mike said to me.

From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2015

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

His father's ice-cream business never had any fascination for the lad; but from the first his spirit drew him to the long-eared shaggy mokes of certain of the neighbours.

From Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs by Alfred Ollivant

Then we'd give our mokes a drink in the middle of 'em, and we'd take a pull at our own water-bags.

From My Lord Duke by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

There ain't any shade, unless you count the shadows of our poor old mokes, and mine's so poor, I 'll bet the sun can find his way through his ribs.

From The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas by Mary Gaunt