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shiralee (suomeksi)
- Määritelmät:
- (lb, en, uncommon) burden, Burden, load.
- (lb, en, in particular, Australia, colloquial, dated) A type of swag that when rolled up resembles a leg of mutton, carried over the shoulder, usually with another load on the chest to balance it.'''1957''' September 27, w:D'Arcy Niland, D'Arcy Niland, ''Aboriginalities'' section of ''w:The Bulletin, The Bulletin'', quoted in “Shiralee,” entry in 1970, Bill Wannan ''Australian Folklore'', 1979, Lansdowne Press, (ISBN, 0-7018-1309-1), page 475.
- * '''2001''', Filton Hebbard, ''Memories of Kalgoorlie: Tales from the Australian Outback'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=IhwnE3TilWkC&pg=PA183&lpg=PA183&dq=%22shiralee%22, %22shiralees%22+-intitle:%22shiralee%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=QG0RwnxZoL&sig=oFo1wbvW7EVz6FzGAeVAKilbf74&hl=en&sa=X&ei=D79EULWJI46jiAfHnoG4DA&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22shiralee%22, %22shiralees%22%20-intitle%3A%22shiralee%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 183],
- *: The bag of food like a '''shiralee''' across his shoulders, the water container stuffed into the looseness of his shirt, the compass, not required for awhile yet, in his side pocket, and the rifle balanced in his hand.
- * '''2006''', Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=NcO7t8G-yQ8C&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=%22shiralee%22, %22shiralees%22+-intitle:%22shiralee%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=cwh_5XpyLU&sig=dU_dFYM9EEJcOSTTDfgw6Orv_KY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=D79EULWJI46jiAfHnoG4DA&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22shiralee%22, %22shiralees%22%20-intitle%3A%22shiralee%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 8],
- *: “Nothin′. A prickly gecko, mate. He dropped off your '''shiralee'''.”