gunyah
an Aboriginal hut or shelter.
any crude bush hut or shelter.
Origin of gunyah
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How to use gunyah in a sentence
As we rode up we could see a gunyah made out of boughs, and a longish wing of dogleg fence, made light but well put together.
Robbery Under Arms | Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf BoldrewoodHe went away to his gunyah then, and except doing one or two things for Starlight would not lift his hand for any one that day.
Robbery Under Arms | Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf BoldrewoodThe only other sign of Stingaree was a hank of rope flung carelessly across the gunyah roof.
Stingaree | E. W. (Ernest William) HornungBowen's answer was to hand his weapon over to Kilbride and to creep into the gunyah on his hands and knees.
Stingaree | E. W. (Ernest William) HornungBacking precipitately out of the gunyah, he turned round before rising upright—and remained upon his knees after all.
Stingaree | E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
British Dictionary definitions for gunyah
/ (ˈɡʌnjə) /
Australian a bush hut or shelter
Origin of gunyah
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