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alt. (context Australia English) A traditional Aboriginal dwelling made of bark and sticks. n. (context Australia English) A traditional Aboriginal dwelling made of bark and sticks.
Usage examples of "gunyah".
Their dwelling place or gunyah was a rude shelter formed by the boughs and bark of trees, which afforded them little protection from the elements.
At last the hawk decided to return to his gunyah with the hope that the crow would secure some food, which they had previously agreed to share.
Warreen had a very comfortable gunyah made of bark and soft leaves, but Mirram who was a careless fellow-did not trouble to build a home.
The fury of the storm increased, and looking anxiously at the rainproof gunyah of his friend, he decided to approach Warreen again.
They shared the same gunyah, and hunted together, and were very proud of their long tails.
As we rode up we could see a gunyah made out of boughs, and a longish wing of dogleg fence, made light but well put together.
He went away to his gunyah then, and except doing one or two things for Starlight would not lift his hand for any one that day.
Silently and swiftly the three passed along the track through a country which, at every step, became more desirable, and at last emerged on an immense pocket where there was a concourse of gunyahs from which the smoke curled up, and in every gunyah was abundance.
He moaned in his gunyah tomb and fretted his heart away quicker than the scaly patches ate into his flesh.
Moreover, the gins were taught to regard her as a superhuman being, and they brought always to her gunyah the best of the fruit they gathered, and of the roots which they dug up with their pointed sticks.
The lubras stayed in the little gunyah that the man had built, and plainly did not want to be caught eavesdropping.
Krubi was piqued, and she retired to the gunyah, and there beat her breasts in dudgeon.
They have left their traces on the plain, however, in the shape of old gunyahs and piled-up heaps of dry timber.
They were to stay at the camp for a week, to burn the gunyahs, knock down the yard, and blind the track as much as they could.
Silently and swiftly the three passed along the track through a country which, at every step, became more desirable, and at last emerged on an immense pocket where there was a concourse of gunyahs from which the smoke curled up, and in every gunyah was abundance.