Meaning of jinker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A high wheeled wagon designed to carry lumber suspended under the body of the vehicle.
   Australia
2. A specialised trailer for carrying long loads such as logs or other large loads such as when moving buildings.
   Australia
3. A two-wheeled open horse drawn carriage; a sulky, trap, road cart or gig.
   Australia

Examples

“[…] exhibited was a newly designed jinker, invented by Mr. John Allan.[…] can load a tree weighing 1½ tons with the greatest ease.”

“The contractor, Mr. A. F. Pincombe, who moved the building intact on a jinker...”

“A Jinker trailer is a trailer designed to transport long logs or other long pieces of material/blocks.”

“I fell out of the jinker and it ran over me but again I survived that without too much trouble.”

“He stood in the jinker and gave the horse a great thwack on the backside with the end of the reins.”

“These two-wheeled passenger vehicles [sulkies], also known as gigs or jinkers in Victoria, could be found in every town and country district [quoting from "Sulkies, Whiskeys and Gigs" by Jeff Powell]....Not to be confused with a timber-hauling jinker, which has little in common.”

“Near the homestead they came upon Peter sitting on the shaft of a jinker, crooning a corroboree song and gazing so intently at the coffin-like ridge that he did not see them.”

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