Meaning of flax-stick | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The flowering stem of the New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax or Phormium cookianum).
   New-Zealand
2. A New Zealander.
   Australia, obsolete, slang

Examples

“Rafts, or canoes, or “catamarans,” are still occasionally improvised by travellers or explorers in primitive parts of New Zealand, e.g. by Haast, who reports constructing “catamarans” of dead trees when flax-sticks were not obtainable.”

“"I always thought Australia was all good country," mused the driver—a flax-stick.”

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