Austral English Part 111
The wood is excellent, of a beautiful satiny texture, and adapted for carvers' and turners' work. [Grows in] all the colonies except Western Australia and Queensland."
the rammer for crushing quartz in gold-mining.
1890. `Goldfields of Victoria,' p.7:
"Forty additional heads will be shortly added to the crushing power, bringing the battery up to sixty heads."
the princ.i.p.al buildings, including the owner's or manager's house, the hut, store, etc., of a sheep or cattle run.
1885. Mrs. Campbell Praed [t.i.tle]:
"The Head Station."
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Maori name for a neck ornament made of greenstone (q.v.).
1835. W. Yate, `Account of New Zealand,' p. 151:
"The latter idea [that they are representatives of G.o.ds] was conceived from the hei-tiki being taken off the neck, laid down ... and then wept and sung over."
1889. Dr. Hocken, `Catalogue of New Zealand Exhibition,'
p. 81:
"Hei means ornament for the neck. Tiki was the creator of man, and these are the representations of him. By a sort of license, they are occasionally taken to represent some renowned ancestor of the possessor; but wooden Tikis, some of immense size, usually represented the ancestors, and were supposed to be visited by their spirits. These might be erected in various parts of a pa, or to mark boundaries, etc. The Maories cling to them as sacred heirlooms of past generations, and with some superst.i.tious reverence."
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1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. ii. p. 168:
"I also found three varieties of a singular green orchis, of a helmet shape, growing singly, on rather tall slender footstalks."
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It is not endemic in Australia.
), it yields a fibre commercially resembling it.
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Heron, n. common English bird-name. The species present in Australia are--
Ashy Reef H.-- Demiegretta asha, Sykes.
Great-billed H.-- Ardea sumatrana, Rafll.
Grey H.-- A. cinerea, Linn.
Night H.-- Nycticorax caledonicus, Lath.
Reef H.-- Demiegretta sacra, Gmel.
White-fronted H.-- Ardea novae-hollandiae, Lath.
White-necked H.-- A. pacifica, Lath.
The Cranes and the Herons are often popularly confused.
1884. Rolf Boldrewood, `Melbourne Memories,' p. 11:
"There did I shoot ... a blue crane--the Australian heron."
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name given in New South Wales to the fish Olistherops brunneus, Macl., family Labridae, or Wra.s.ses.
. (Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 358.)
1884. Rolf Boldrewood, `Melbourne Memories,' c. v. p. 35:
"The beautiful umbrageous blackwood, or native hickory, one of the handsomest trees in Australia."
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Called also Leather-jacket (q.v.).
about Brisbane.
is also English. Elimang (Hunter), e-lee-mong (Collins), hilaman (Ridley). A narrow shield of an aboriginal, made of bark or wood. Notice Mr. Grant's remarkable plural (1881 quotation).
1798. D. Collins, `Account of English Colony in New South Wales,' p. 612:
"E-lee-mong-shield made of bark."
1834. L. E. Threlkeld, `Australian Grammar,' p. 5:
"As an initial, h occurs in only a few words, such as hilaman, a `shield.'"
Ibid. p. 10: