1820. `Grammar and Vocabulary of Language of New Zealand' (Church Missionary Society), p. 218:
"Tua tira, a species of lizard."
1863. `Mahoe Leaves,' p. 47:
"A small boy of a most precocious nature, who was termed `tua tara,' from a horrid sort of lizard that the natives abhor."
1890. `Catalogue of New Zealand Exhibition':
"The Tuatara is the largest existing New Zealand reptile. It is closely allied to the Lizards; but on account of certain peculiarities of structure, some of which tend to connect it with the Crocodiles, is placed by Dr. Guenther in a separate order (<i>Rhynchocephalina</i>)."
<hw>Tucker</hw>, <i>n</i>. Australian slang for food. <i>To tuck in</i> is provincial English for to eat, and <i>tuck</i> is a school-boy word for food, especially what is bought at a pastrycook's. <i>To make tucker</i> means to earn merely enough to pay for food.
1874. Garnet Walch, `Head over Heels,' p. 73:
"For want of more nourishing tucker,
I believe they'd have eaten him."
1875. Wood and Lapham, `Waiting for the Mail,' p. 33: