Definition of "blackfellow" [blackfellow]

• An Australian Aborigine (noun)

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• "From their account it has a head and neck like an emu, with a long and flowing mane — feeding on crayfish (with which the river abounds) [yabbies] and occasionally on a stray blackfellow; that it inhabits the darkest and deepest parts of the river, and in some of the lakes and lagoons that longest retain water."
• "This has apparently been used by them for smoke-drying a dead blackfellow."
• "His name not really Toomai, he being African blackfellow."