‘Got it coat, yarraman, and musket just like it soger.’ (Meaning that they were equipped with horses, fire-arms, &c., and drest like mounted police.
1856, W. W. Dobie, Recollections of Port Phillip
In stalks a black-fellow, like an emissary of Satan, who ... tells him how that ‘two big-fellow bushrangers pull away along o’ creek, and look out yarramen (horses) belonging to station, and no gammon.’
1892,Western Champion, Barcaldine 9 Feb
The astonished ‘yarraman’ gave one look round ... and started off across the plain like a toboggan slide on the down grade.
1923, J. Bowes, Jackaroos
‘Lot of pfellers go long here.’ ‘How many yarramans?’
1976, C. D. Mills, Hobble Chains and Greenhide
‘Properly good yarraman this one,’ seemed to be the undeniable verdict.
1994, R. & J. Huggins, Auntie Rita
You hardly heard of domestic violence in my time that’s true ... I think the old yarraman got more hits than we did. He never hit the dog because the dog was too fast for him.
2005, Melissa Lucashenko, Mullumbimby
'Whattya you been doing with this yarraman?' Jo asked Ellen, who was standing beside the bathtub that now held the horses' drinking water.