A couple of hickory poles so bent that the runners and shafts are of the same piece, with a crate placed on four props, complete this primitive species of sledge; and when the crate is filled with hay, and the driver well wrapped in a buffalo robe, the "turn out" is about as comfortable a one as a man could wish.--Hoffman, Winter in the West, p. 200.
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
n. name given to an Australiangenus of sparrow-like birds, of which the only species is Struthidea ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris