she-oak

Definitions

1. Any of various trees and shrubs of the family Casuarinaceae growing in Australasia and parts of Asia.
   Australia, countable
2. Beer.
   Australia, archaic, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“But there were other nights, wild and stormy, when the moon had gone to another town and every star was dark side down, and when the wind, while she slept, had left the she-oaks by the river to moan forebodingly round the house.”

“When she swung the belt again he crossed his fingers for her and screwed up his face⟳ in sympathy when it caught, in mid-air, on a branch of a big old she-oak that hung above the falls.”

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