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Definition of Gunyahs
1. gunyah [n] - See also: gunyah
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gunyahs
Literary usage of Gunyahs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"35 : " Three huts, or gunyahs, consisted of a few green boughs, ... Where this
beautiful building now stands, there were only the gunyahs or homes of the ..."
2. The Aborigines of Victoria: With Notes Relating to the Habits of the Natives by Robert Brough Smyth (1878)
"That night some of the party fancied they heard a chopping of branches, as when
the blacks construct their gunyahs at eventide. ..."
3. The Exploration of Australia by Albert Frederick Calvert (1901)
"The following day we reached the main creek, and, knowing where there was a fine
water-hole and native gunyahs, we went there intending to save the ..."
4. A Flower-hunter in Queensland & New Zealand by Marian Ellis Ryan Rowan, Ellis Rowan (1898)
"After another two minutes, we found ourselves on the bank of the river with "
gunyahs "l all about, while a crowd of chattering unclothed natives pressed ..."
5. A Flower-hunter in Queensland & New Zealand by Marian Ellis Ryan Rowan, Ellis Rowan (1898)
"After another two minutes, we found ourselves on the bank of the river with "
gunyahs "l all about, while a crowd of chattering unclothed natives pressed ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1902)
"In and around the gunyahs, and from one to another, the birds in their play pursue
each other to their heart's content.'" Mr Broadbent mentions that the ..."
7. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1902)
"gunyahs they are called by Broadbent, who says he found five of them in a ...
In and around the gunyahs, and from one to another, the birds in their play ..."
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