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Australian backwater - no big ball
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billabong
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Word definitions for billabong in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently a branch of a river running to a dead end
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Billabong \Bil"la*bong`\, n. [Native name.] In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch . This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A billabong (, ) is an oxbow lake , an isolated pond left behind after a river changes course. Billabongs are usually formed when the path of a creek or river changes, leaving the former branch with a dead end. Billabongs, reflecting the arid Australian ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Australian, "backwater, stagnant pool," 1865, from Billibang , Aboriginal name of Bell River, from billa "water" + bang , of uncertain meaning.
Usage examples of billabong.
To Norah, who knew that the world held no place like Billabong, it only lacked one person for the final seal of perfection.
But then there was tremendous friendship between the master of Billabong and his small daughter.
She was frankly glad that Billabong devoted most of its energies to cattle, and only put up with the sheep work because, since Daddy was there, it never occurred to her to do anything else but go.
It was the only one on Billabong, where all station details were strictly up-to-date.
But in his heart came the beginning of a grudge against the Bush, Billabong in general, and Norah in particular.
However, a friendly yokel gave me a lift out to Billabong in a very dirty and springless buggy, so that the mistake was not a fatal one, though it gave me a very uncomfortable drive.
So he suffered in silence, creaked miserably at his uprising and down-sitting, and was happily unaware that everyone in Billabong knew perfectly well what was the matter with him.
On the metalled road the rubbered tyres spun silently, and only the flying hoofs clattered and soon they had left the made road and turned on to the hard-beaten track that led to Billabong, where progress was even smoother.
But no other horse on Billabong could see the way Bobs went when he was in earnest.
He donned a dark suit reluctantly, a little consoled in that its very recent cut would certainly be an eye-opener to Billabong, and went down to dinner, meeting on the way Norah, in a muslin frock, with her hair flying and her eyes sparkling.
The Billabong ball was an event for which an invitation was much coveted.
There were no memories to wake in the happy young hearts in the loft at Billabong that night.
Her own circle had been too limited to give Norah much experience of the outer world, and she shrank instinctively from anything that lay beyond Billabong and its surroundings.
Besides, her husband was playing, and the Billabong contingent, who did not seem to mind the heat at all, had arrived full of most infectious high spirits, filling her house with a cheerful atmosphere of youth and jollity.
So I got Murty and Wally to go out at daylight this morning, taking the straight line to the Darrells, and they picked up his tracks pointing homewards about five miles from the Billabong boundary.