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Old Dart

name

Etymology

Possibly from the river Dart in Devonshire which enters the sea at Dartmouth, location of a Royal Navy College. Royal Navy officers who were returning to England at the end of a foreign tour of duty referred to going back to the "Old Dart" for further training. Alternatively a variation of "old dirt" (compare old sod).

Definitions

  1. Britain, England, London, or Ireland

    Britain, England, London, or Ireland; the Old Country.

    • J. A. W. has still, I am persuaded, any amount of friends in the Old Dart.
    • You recollect that when I left the Colony to visit the old dart, besides the usual allowance granted...
    • The ‘Old Dart’ mattered little to German Australians but the empire was another matter and Australia was their home.

  2. Dartmouth Royal Navy College.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA