10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SETTLER'S CLOCK»
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settler's clock in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Kookaburra: King of the Bush
... daybreak and the Laughing Kookaburra's cackling chorus as indigenous
Australians, and came up with common names that were a reference to this
predictable timing: 'Alarm Bird', 'Breakfast Bird', 'Settler's Clock' and 'Bushman's
Clock'.
2
Five Years' Experience in Australia Felix: Comprising a ...
The laughing jackass, or settler's clock, is an uncouth looking creature of an
ashen brown colour, with some bright spots of a bluish colour about the wings, it
has a large strong bill, with which it attacks all kinds of snakes and reptiles with ...
George Henry Haydon, 1846
3
The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New ...
I usually rise when I hear the merry laugh of the laughing jackass — Dacelo
gigantea —which, from its regularity, has not been inaptly named the settler's
clock ; a loud cooee then rouses my companions ; Brown to make tea, Mr. Calvert
to ...
4
The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
Hence, any 'finisher' whatsoever: from ca 1820: coll. settler's clock ; settler's
matches. A kookaburra; readily inflammable strips of bark: Australian coll: since
ca 1870. seven, be more than . To be wide-awake; knowing: coll: from ca 1875; ...
5
Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies
The 'settler's clock' was the kookaburra,4'' and the strips of bark that hung from
eucalypts were the 'settler's matches'. 'Settling' could also be contrasted with '
squatting' because it suggested the establishment of families and community; ...
Tom Griffiths, Libby Robin, 1997
6
Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases ...
i. p. 232 : “ The loud and discordant noise of the laughing jackass (or settler's-
clock, as he is called), as he takes up his roost on the withered bough of one of
our tallest trees, acquaints us that the sun has just dipped behind the hills.” 1827.
Edward Ellis Morris, 2011
7
Australian Bird Names: A Complete Guide
... Allied 181 Buff-breasted 181 Large-billed 182 Sombre 181 Sombre-coloured
181 Spotted 181 White-fronted 181 Settler's Clock 157 Shag, Antarctic 62 Big
Black 61 Black 61 Black and White 61 Black-faced 61 Blue-eyed 62 Frilled 61
Heard ...
Jeannie Gray, Ian Fraser, 2013
8
The odd volume: a collection of odds and ends ; in prose and ...
The loud and discordant noise of the laughing jackass (or settler's clock, as he is
called,) as he takes up his roost on the withered bough of one of our tallest trees,
acquaints us that the sun has just dipped behind the hills, and that it is time to ...
The loud and discordant noise of the laughinejackais (or settler's clock, as he is
called), as he takes up his roost on the withered bough of one of our tallest trees,
acquaints us that the sun has just dipped behind the hills, and that it is time to ...
John Scott, John Taylor, 1827
10
Two Years in New South Wales
The loud and discordant noise of the laughing jackass (or settler's clock, as he is
called), as he takes up his roost on the withered bough of one of our tallest trees,
acquaints us that the sun has just dipped behind the hills, and that it is time to ...
