eugarie

plural eugaries

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of ugari.

   The occupants fished, flaked stone for artefacts and built fires but did not gather many shellfish locally (most of the few fragments found in this phase are identifiable as Eugarie from the east coast).

   1989, J[ay] Hall, G. Bowen, “An Excavation of a Midden Complex at the Toulkerrie Oystermens Lease, Moreton Island, S.E. Queensland”, in Queensland Archaeological Research, volume 6, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Qld.: Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 May 2020, page 24

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   In front of him were great piles of blackened eugarie shells, relics of past aboriginal feasts. But the fires that had burned here among the dunes were long dead, and there was no sign of recent use of the site.

   2009, Doris Gray-Woods, “The Coastal Survey of 1840”, in With Compass, Chain & Courage, Salisbury, Qld.: Boolarong Press, →ISBN, page 36