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

Lucerne
·noun ·see <<Lucern>>, the plant. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
lucerne, native
or Paddy, n. i.q. Queensland Hemp. See hemp. 1895. A. B. Paterson, `Man from Snowy River,' p. 95: ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
Paddy
·adj Low; mean; boorish; vagabond. II. Paddy ·noun Unhusked rice; — commonly so called in the East...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
paddy
The general name for an Irishman: being the abbreviation of Patrick, the name of the tutelar saint o...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
paddy
See lucerne, native ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
paddy
, or padi. Rice in the husk, so called by the Malays, from whose language the word has found its w...

The Sailor's Word-Book
native lucerne
n. i.q. Queensland Hemp.See under hemp. ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
paddy-boats
A peculiar Ceylon boat, for the conveyance of rice and other necessaries. ...

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