jinker

plural jinkers

1. AustraliaA high wheeled wagon designed to carry lumber suspended under the body of the vehicle.

   […] exhibited was a newly designed jinker, invented by Mr. John Allan.[…] can load a tree weighing 1½ tons with the greatest ease.

   1896 September 12, “Improved jinker”, in The Leader (Melbourne AU), page 12

2. AustraliaA specialised trailer for carrying long loads such as logs or other large loads such as when moving buildings.

   The contractor, Mr. A. F. Pincombe, who moved the building intact on a jinker...

   1903 March 18, “East Broken Hill School”, in Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, AU, page 1

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   A Jinker trailer is a trailer designed to transport long logs or other long pieces of material/blocks.

   2024 October 28 (last accessed), Modern Transport Engineers Australia

3. AustraliaA two-wheeled open horse drawn carriage; a sulky, trap, road cart or gig.

   I fell out of the jinker and it ran over me but again I survived that without too much trouble.

   2004 March 11, Australians at War Film Archive, Harold (Mac) Ford

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   He stood in the jinker and gave the horse a great thwack on the backside with the end of the reins.

   1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 155

   These two-wheeled passenger vehicles [sulkies], also known as gigs or jinkers in Victoria, could be found in every town and country district [quoting from "Sulkies, Whiskeys and Gigs" by Jeff Powell]....Not to be confused with a timber-hauling jinker, which has little in common.

   2017 July 11, 432 Pages-Jinker-Monissa's Place

   Near the homestead they came upon Peter sitting on the shaft of a jinker, crooning a corroboree song and gazing so intently at the coffin-like ridge that he did not see them.

   1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 179

present singular third person jinkers · participle present jinkering · participle past jinkered · past jinkered

1. transitiveTo transport by such a vehicle.

   Stokes […] organised for a house to be jinkered to the farm from one of his properties.

   2013, Margaret Simons, Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man