emu-bob verb to pick things up off the ground, such as litter or kindling AUSTRALIA,1926
He took the heavy end of things, of course, but there were a lot of little jobs she took a hand at for a few hours, picking up the lighter sticks for burning off–emu-bobbing it’s called[.] — Frank Dalby Davison, TheWellsofBeersheba, p. 183, 1965