"Old Dart" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1872, Pen-name Auld Lang Syne, Original Correspondence, Ovens and Murray Advertiser, Beechworth, Victoria, 20 July 1872, page 2:",
          "text": "J. A. W. has still, I am persuaded, any amount of friends in the Old Dart.",
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          "ref": "1876, Magguffin, Random Notes, Oamaru Mail, 24 June 1876, page 2:",
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          "text": "The ‘Old Dart’ mattered little to German Australians but the empire was another matter and Australia was their home.",
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          "text": "‘I have a whole range of new talents, Dad. I can muster a mob of cattle, break in a horse, speak pidgin, and at a pinch, stitch up someone′s head.’\n‘Very useful in the Old Dart,’ he commented dryly and returned to his newspaper.",
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        "Britain, England, London, or Ireland; the Old Country."
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        "Dartmouth Royal Navy College."
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