log-hut

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

n.


Log-cabin is American.Log-hut is Australian.

1802. G. Barrington, `History of New South Wales,' p. 178:

«Not more than ten settlers had been able to erect dwellingsbetter than log-huts.» [This was in Sydney, 1796.]

1846. J. L. Stokes, `Discoveries in Australia,' vol. I.c. ix. p. 287:

«Captain Fyans was living in a log-hut on the banks of the Marabool river.»

1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. vi. p. 61:

«Log-huts, with the walls built American fashion, of horizontaltree-trunks.»

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