Austral English / A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia

by Edward Ellis Morris

"Tiaki or purourou. This elegant bird is about the size of the sky-lark."

<hw>Tieke</hw>, <i>n</i>. Same as <i>Tiaki</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Tiers</hw>, <i>pl. n</i>. used in Tasmania as the usual word for mountains, in the same way as the word <i>Ranges</i> (q.v.) in Australia.

1876. W. B. Wildey, `Australasia and Oceanic Region,' p. 320:

"Two chains of mountains, the eastern and western tiers, run through it nearly north and south."

1891. `The Australasian,' April 4, p. 670, col. 2:

"That stuff as they calls horizontal, a mess of branches and
root,
The three barren tiers; and the Craycroft, that 'ud settle
a bandicoot."

<hw>Tiersman</hw>, <i>n</i>. Tasmanian word for one who lives in the <i>Tiers</i> (q.v.).

1852. F. Lancelott, `Australia as it is,' vol. ii. p. 115:

"Splatters, or, as they are commonly called tiersmen, reside in the forest of stringy bark . . ."