1890. `Victorian Statutes—Game Act' (Third Schedule):
"Thick-heads. [Close season.] From the first day of August to the twentieth day of December next following in each year."
<hw>Thornback</hw>, <i>n</i>. special name for one of the Stingrays, <i>Raia lemprieri</i>, Richards., or <i>Raja rostata</i>, Castln., family <i>Raijdae</i>.
1875. `Melbourne Spectator,' Aug. 28, p. 201, col. 3:
"A thornback skate . . . weighing 109 lbs., has been caught . . . at North Arm, South Australia."
<hw>Thousand-Jacket</hw>, <i>n</i>. a North Island name for <i>Ribbon-wood</i> (q.v.), a New Zealand tree. Layer after layer of the inner bark can be stripped off.
1888. Cassell's `Picturesque Australasia,' vol. iii. p. 210:
"Koninny [sic], raupo, toi-toi, supplejack, thousand-jacket, and the like, are names of things known well enough to the inhabitants of Napier and Taranaki, but to the average stay-at-home Englishman they are nouns which only vexatiously illustrate the difference between names and things."
1889. T. Kirk, `Flora of New Zealand,' p. 87:
"Hoheria populnea. The Houhere. Order—Malvaceae. . . In the north of Auckland the typical form is known as `houhere'; but Mr. Colenso informs me the varieties are termed `houi' and `whau-whi' in the south . . . By the settlers all the forms are termed `ribbon-wood,' or less frequently `lace-bark'— names which are applied to other plants: they are also termed `thousand-jacket.'"