1882. A. Tolmer, `Reminiscences,' p. 298:
"The plant that has since by courtesy borne my name (Tolmer's grass)."
<hw>Tomahawk</hw>, <i>n</i>. a word of North-American Indian origin, applied in English to the similarly shaped short one-handed axe or hatchet. The word is not frequent in England, but in Australia the word <i>hatchet</i> has practically disappeared, and the word <i>Tomahawk</i> to describe it is in every-day use. It is also applied to the stone hatchet of the Aboriginals. A popular corruption of it is <i>Tommy-axe</i>.
1802. G. Barrington, `History of New South Wales,' c. xii. p. 466:
"A plentiful assortment of . . . knives, shirts, toma-hawkes [sic], axes, jackets, scissars [sic], etc., etc., for the people in general."
1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 259:
"We . . . observed recent marks of the stone tomahawk of the natives."
1851. G. W. Rusden, `Moyarra,' canto i. 17, p. 25:
"One hand he wreathed in Mytah's hair,
Whirled then the tomahawk in air."
1870. E. B. Kennedy, `Fours /sic/ Years in Queensland,' p. 721: