gidgee

plural gidgees · alternative gidgea · alternative gidyea

1. AustraliaAny of various trees of the genus Acacia, especially Acacia cambagei.First known use 19th c.

   Acacia homalophylla, A. Cunn., B. Fl., ii., 383. "Curly or Narrow-leaved Yarran." A "Myall." Called also "Gidgee."

   1890, Joseph Henry Maiden, Wattles and Wattle-barks: Being Hints on the Conservation and Cultivation of Wattles, Together with Particulars of Their Value

   2 more examples

   Since my early days of droving the years have taken toll, / But I somehow miss my swag wrap by a fire of gidgee coal.

   1964, Stan Coster, “By a Fire of Gidgee Coal”

   Although he lay with some sense of security beneath a gidgee tree, his father's totem, he was brooding about how he could get rid of the pigeons.

   1997, Alexis Wright, Plains of Promise, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 186

plural gidgees · alternative gidgie

1. AustraliaWesternA type of long spear.First known use 19th c.

   I take up the shovel and hold it aloft like a gidgee, but the centipede has disappeared.

   2007, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, published 2007, page 96

   2 more examples

   “What say we catch gilgies? I've got a gidgee hidden down the river bank. There's some real big ones this time of year.”

   1965, Mudrooroo, Wild Cat Falling, HarperCollins, published 2001, page 12

   The locals fished by herding fish into the sandy shallows and spearing them with their gidgees.

   2017, Thomas Wilson, Stepping Off: Rewilding and Belonging in the South-West