(UK, euphemistic, obsolete) Penal servitude; transportation.
(UK, euphemistic, obsolete) Penal servitude; transportation.
What!—me not know my * * * Testament! Why!—it's the only * * * book you get a word of when you're nursing for Botany Bay fever.
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(Australia, slang, obsolete, pejorative) Any illness feigned by convicts to avoid being sent to Botany Bay.
(Australia, slang, obsolete, or, historical) 25 lashes, i.e. strokes of a whip across a person's back as a punishment.
, south of Sydney Cove, Australia; the site of a landing by explorer Captain James Cook and later of the First Fleet, and originally planned to be the site of the first penal colony in Australia.
(obsolete, Australia) Scurvy.
The penal colony, actually established at Sydney Cove, which developed into the now city of Sydney.