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Glossary

brolga-a large silvery-grey crane found in Northern and Eastern Australia, which performs an elaborate courtship dance.

Coberm-a worm, eaten as a delicacy.

jinker-a light vehicle, designed to carry two people.

kingsman-a large showy handkerchief in fashion in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Mohawk-a colloquial term for a late Regency/early Victorian "Hooray Henry." the push-colloquial Australian for a gang of vicious hooligans. shickered-drunk. swy-a gambling game.

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