"A warrior in great excitement just before Borboby commences."
<hw>Boree</hw>, <i>n</i>. aboriginal name for the tree <i>Acacia pendula</i>, A. Cunn., <i>N.O. Leguminosae</i>; a variety of <i>Myall</i>, probably from Queensland aboriginal word <i>Booreah</i>, fire. It would be preferred by black or white man as firewood over any other timber except <i>giddea</i> (q.v.).
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 363:
"Weeping, or true myall. It is sometimes called bastard gidgee in Western New South Wales. Called boree by aboriginals, and often boree, or silver-leaf boree, by the colonists of Western New South Wales. Nilyah is another New South Wales name."
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Squatter's Dream,' iii. p. 30:
"Myall and boree belts of timbers."
1893. `The Times,' [Reprint] `Letters from Queensland,' p. 6o:
"The timber, of course, when seen close at hand is strange. Boree and gidyah, coolibah and whitewood, brigelow, mulgah, and myall are the unfamiliar names by which you learn to recognise the commonest varieties."
<hw>Borer</hw>, <i>n</i>. name applied to an Australian insect. See quotation.
1876. W. Harcus, `South Australia,' p. 110: