jinkers

n.

a contrivance much used in the bushfor moving heavy logs and trunks of trees. It consists of twopairs of wheels, with their axle-trees joined by a long beam,under which the trunks are suspended by chains. Its structureis varied in town for moving wooden houses. Called in Englanda «whim.»

1894. `The Argus,' July 7, p. 8, col. 4:

«A rather novel spectacle was to be seen to-day on the Ballanroad in the shape of a five-roomed cottage on jinkers. . . .Mr. Scottney, carrier of Fitzroy, on whose jinkers the removalis being made . . .»

Jirrand, adj. an aboriginal word in the dialect ofBotany Bay, signifying «afraid.» Ridley, in his vocabulary,spells it jerron, and there are other spellings.

1827. P. Cunningham, `Two Years in New South Wales,' vol.ii. p. 59:

«The native word jirrand (afraid) has become in somemeasure an adopted child, and may probably puzzle our futureJohnsons with its unde derivatur.»

1889. Rolf Boldrewood, `Robbery under Arms,' p. 316:

«When I saw the mob there was I didn't see so much to be jerranabout, as it was fifty to one in favour of any one that waswanted.»