"`You can give me half-a-pound of nailrod,' he said, in a quiet tone.'"
<hw>Nail-tailed Wallaby</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Onychogale</i>.
<hw>Namma hole</hw>, <i>n</i>. a native well. <i>Namma</i> is an aboriginal word for a woman's breast.
1893. `The Australasian,' August 5, p. 252, col. 4:
"The route all the way from York to Coolgardie is amply watered, either `namma holes' native wells) or Government wells being plentiful on the road."
1896. `The Australasian,' March 28, p. 605, col. 1:
"The blacks about here [far west of N.S.W.] use a word nearly resembling `namma' in naming waterholes, viz., `numma,' pronounced by them `ngumma,' which means a woman's breast. It is used in conjunction with other words in the native names of some waterholes in this district, e.g., `Tirrangumma' = Gum-tree breast; and ngumma-tunka' = breast-milk, the water in such case being always milky in appearance. In almost all native words beginning with <i>n</i> about here the first <i>n</i> has the <i>ng</i> sound as above."
<hw>Nancy</hw>, <i>n</i>. a Tasmanian name for the flower <i>Anguillaria</i> (q.v.).
<hw>Nankeen Crane</hw>, or <hw>Nankeen Bird</hw>, or <hw>Nankeen Night Heron</hw>, <i>n</i>. the Australian bird <i>Nycticorax caledonicus</i>, Gmel. Both the Nankeen Bird and the Nankeen Hawk are so called from their colour. Nankeen is "a Chinese fabric, usually buff, from the natural colour of a cotton grown in the Nanking district" of China. (`Century.')
1838. James, `Six Months in South Australia, p. 202: