name given to one of thefruits of the Geebong tribe. the original sense is somethingtwined or woven together; hence it came to mean a hurdle, wovenwith twigs; Anglo-Saxon, watel, a hurdle. 267: To `do the block' corresponds in Melbourne to driving in HydePark. 177: I believe that an inveterate buckjumper can be cured byslinging up one of the four legs, and lunging him aboutseverely in heavy ground on the three legs.
He had often questioned the Darling blacks about it, and theyalways replied by pointing towards the north west. Cockatoo is the name givento the small, bush farmer in New Zealand. Copper-head Snake. It may be considered as themost formidable of any which New South Wales has been yet foundto produce, and is very destructive; though there is noinstance of its attacking the human species.
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