Meaning of gidgee | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of various trees of the genus Acacia, especially Acacia cambagei.
   Australia
2. A type of long spear.
   Australia, Western

Examples

“Acacia homalophylla, A. Cunn., B. Fl., ii., 383. "Curly or Narrow-leaved Yarran." A "Myall." Called also "Gidgee."”

“Since my early days of droving the years have taken toll, / But I somehow miss my swag wrap by a fire of gidgee coal.”

“Although he lay with some sense of security beneath a gidgee tree, his father's totem, he was brooding about how he could get rid of the pigeons.”

““What say we catch gilgies? I've got a gidgee hidden down the river bank. There's some real big ones this time of year.””

“I take up the shovel and hold it aloft like a gidgee, but the centipede has disappeared.”

“The locals fished by herding fish into the sandy shallows and spearing them with their gidgees.”

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