jinker

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English

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Etymology

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Variant of janker.

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Noun

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jinker (plural jinkers)

  1. (Australia) A high wheeled wagon designed to carry lumber suspended under the body of the vehicle.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia[1], New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 179:
      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.
    • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 155:
      He stood in the jinker and gave the horse a great thwack on the backside with the end of the reins.

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