gilgie
- a variation of gilgai.
Example Sentences
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However, next morning—after verifying the tracks of the thirsty bullocks so near the gilgie that it seemed a wonder they hadn't walked into it— I looked for the clump of mallee.
From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph
If he had been as strange to that gilgie as you were, and had got the same directions he gave you, he would have found it first shot.
From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph
He was n't interested in anything but the Diamantina track, and I was nasty over the gilgie, so we did n't yarn much.
From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph
Just at sunset I struck the partly-plain patch of sixty or eighty acres, where the gilgie ought to be.
From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph
I was absently observing one white bullock close by, when, with a low bellow, he suddenly darted forward eight or ten yards, and began drinking at the gilgie.
From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph
