Austral English Part 152
No. 7, p. 107:
"What are commonly styled `locusts' in this country are really Cicadae, belonging to a totally distinct and widely separated order of insects. And moreover the same kind of Cicada is known by different names in different localities, such as `Miller,' `Mealyback,' etc. The true locusts belong to the gra.s.shoppers, while the h.o.m.opterous Cicadidae have been known as Cicadas from times of remote antiquity."
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. Log-cabin is American.
Log-hut is Australian.
1802. G. Barrington, `History of New South Wales,' p. 178:
"Not more than ten settlers had been able to erect dwellings better than log-huts."
[This was in Sydney, 1796.]
1846. J. L. Stokes, `Discoveries in Australia,' vol. I.
c. ix. p. 287:
"Captain Fyans was living in a log-hut on the banks of the Marabool river."
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. vi. p. 61:
"Log-huts, with the walls built American fashion, of horizontal tree-trunks."
. an Australian bird, called also a Spinetail. The species are--
Black-headed-- Orthonyx spaldingi, Ramsay;
Spinetailed-- O. spinicauda, Temm., called also Pheasant's Mother. See Orthonyx.
the Lock-up. Originally, in the early days, a log-hut, and often keeping the name when it was made a more secure place. Sometimes, when there was no lock-up, the prisoners were chained to heavy logs of trees.
1802. G.Barrington, `History of New South Wales,' p. 184:
"The governor resolved on building a large log prison both at Sydney and Paramatta, and `as the affair cried haste,' a quant.i.ty of logs were ordered to be sent in by the various settlers, officers and others."
[p. 196]: "The inhabitants of Sydney were a.s.sessed to supply thatch for the new gaol, and the building was enclosed with a strong high fence. It was 80 feet long, the sides and ends were of strong logs, a double row of which formed each part.i.tion. The prison was divided into 22 cells. The floor and the roof were logs, over which was a coat eight inches deep of clay."
1851. Letter from Mrs. Perry, given in Canon Goodman's `Church of Victoria during Episcopate of Bishop Perry,' p. 164:
"One [sentry] at the lock-up, a regular American log-hut."
[sic. But in America it would have been called a log-cabin.]
1888. Rolf Boldrewood, `Robbery under Arms,' p. 193:
"Let's put him in the Logs ... The lock-up, like most bush ones, was built of heavy logs, just roughly squared, with the ceiling the same sort."
1888. Rolf Boldrewood, `A Sydneyside Saxon,' p. 111:
"`He'll land himself in the logs about that same calf racket if he doesn't lookout, some day.' `Logs!' I says. `There don't seem to be many about this part. The trees are all too small.'"
. to make a log-support for the windla.s.s.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. v. p. 54:
"We ... had logged up and made a start with another shaft."
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Manufacturers of sweetmeats are termed Lolly-makers.
1871. J. J. Simpson, `Recitations,' p. 24:
"Lollies that the children like."
1874. Garnet Walch, `Head over Heels,' p. 18:
"Common children fancy lollies, Eat them 'gainst their parents' wills."
1882. A. J. Boyd, `Old Colonials,' p. 16:
"I thankfully expended the one in bile-producing cakes and lollies."
1893. `Evening Standard' (Melbourne), Oct. 18, p. 6, col. 2:
"Mr. Patterson (musing over last Sat.u.r.day's experiences): You're going to raise the price of lollies. I'm a great buyer of them myself. (Laughter.) If you pay the full duty it will, doubtless, be patriotic for me to buy more when I go amongst the juveniles."
, Gunth.
1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,'
p. 33:
"The long-fin, Anthias Iongima.n.u.s, Gunth., is a good fish that finds its way to the market occasionally ... may be known by its uniform red colour, and the great length of the pectoral fins."
; called also Light Yellow-Wood.
. name for a big drink and also for the gla.s.s in which it is contained. Perhaps in allusion to its tall, tapering, long shape.
1888. Ca.s.sell's `Picturesque Australasia,' vol. iii. p. 83:
"Their drivers had completed their regulation half-score of `long-sleevers' of `she-oak.'"
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to examine.
1874. W. H. L. Ranken, `Dominion of Australia,' c. vi. p. 105: