torch
Language:
Australian:
Boo-doo
English JS Main:
torch
English:
Of the grass or rushes which grow at the top of the tree, they make torches, named Boo-do.'
Category:
flora: parts and products
Source:
Collins 2
Notebook:
2
Page:
120
Line:
42.1
Respelt:
budu
Part of speech:
noun
Date:
1802
Meaning Clue:
"Boo-doo" budu = "Of the grass or rushes which grow at the top of the tree, they make torches, named Boo-do.'" torch : Collins 2 [2:120:42.1] [BB]
’buduwanång’ = ’Magellanic Clouds’: [c:16:6];
’budu-wá’ = ‘To warm one's hand by the fire’: [b:21:10]
Source Details:
Collins, David 1975 [1802], An Account of the English Colony In New South Wales with Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc, of the Native Inhabitants of that Country, Volume II.
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An Account of the English Colony In New South Wales with Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc, of the Native Inhabitants of that Country, Volume II by David Collins, Late Judge-Advocate and Secretary of the Colony (originally Published 1802).
This Australian edition published 1975] by A. H. & A. W. REED PTY LTD, , Sydney, Wellington, London.
Edited by Brian H. Fletcher MA PhD, Senior Lecturer In History, University of Sydney; Published in Association with the Royal Australian Historical Society
Comment:
Source note: Hunter in Collins 11 1802 [1975:12]
[Keith Smith comment: torch from flowering top]