bargan

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


a name of the Come-back Boomerang (q.v.). (Spelt also barragan.)

1892. J. Fraser, `Aborigines of New South Wales,' p. 70:

«The `come-back' variety (of boomerang) is not a fightingweapon. A dialect name for it is bargan, which word may beexplained in our language to mean `bent like a sickle orcrescent moon.'»