(Australia) A noise-making device, often constructed ad hoc from materials to hand, used by a farmer to get sheep or cattle moving.
2005 October 30, Bruce Simpson, interviewed on Landline, Australian Broadcasting Commission, [https://web.archive.org/web/20070825184938/http://www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2005/s1493621.htm transcript],
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(Australia) , a disparaging term for canned meat.
: I was with the cattle on my own at that stage, and to get them going, I inserted a few stones in the quart pot and used that as a tin dog. It got the cattle moving.
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