waddie

plural waddies

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of waddy.

   We found shells of Cymbium and Cytherea, an enormous waddie, which could have been wielded only by a powerful arm, nets and various instruments for fishing, in their deserted camp.

   1846, Ludwig Leichhardt, Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia

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   Their weapons of defence are the spear and waddie; the former is about twelve feet long, and as thick as the little finger of a man; the tea-tree supplies them with this matchless weapon; they harden one end, which is very sharply pointed, by burning and filing it with a flint prepared for the purpose.

   1829, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13,