"Only three weeks before he had waddied his gin to death for answering questions asked her by a blacktracker."
1896. A. B. Paterson, `Man from Snowy River,' p. 45:
"For they waddied one another, till the plain was strewn with
dead,
While the score was kept so even that they neither got
ahead."
<hw>Waddy Wood</hw>, or <hw>White Wood</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given in Tasmania to the tree <i>Pittosporum bicolor</i>, Hook., <i>N.O. Pittosporeae</i>; from which the aboriginals there chiefly made their Waddies.
1851. `Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land,' vol. i. p. 156:
"11th October, 1848. . . a sample of a very fine close-grained white timber, considered by him suitable for wood-engraving purposes, obtained in a defile of Mount Wellington. It seems to be the young wood of <i>Pittosporum bicolor</i>, formerly in high estimation amongst the Aborigines of Tasmania, on account of its combined qualities of density, hardness, and tenacity, as the most suitable material of which to make their warlike implement the waddie."
<hw>Wagtail</hw>, or <hw>Wagtail Fly-catcher</hw>, <i>n</i>. an Australian bird, <i>Rhipidura tricolor</i>, the <i>Black-and-white Fantail</i>, with black-and-white plumage like a pied wagtail. See also quotation, 1896. The name is applied sometimes in Gippsland, and was first used in Western Australia as a name for the <i>Black-and-white Fantail</i>. See <i>Fantail</i>.
1885. R. M. Praed, `Head-Station,' p. 24:
"He pointed to a Willy-wagtail which was hopping cheerfully from stone to stone."
1896. A. J. North, `List of the Insectivorous Birds of New South Wales,' pt i. p. 13: