gunyah

Historical Examples

• He then gave Mr. Burke a letter and his watch for his father, and we buried the remainder of the field-books near the gunyah.

  A Source Book Of Australian History

  Compiled by Gwendolen H. Swinburne

• Black Joe's father, old Black Jimmie, lived in a gunyah on the rise at the back of the sheepyards, and shepherded for my uncle.

  Over the Sliprails

  Henry Lawson

• 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 Boldrewood

• He 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 Boldrewood

• We used to keep our ammunition and other articles in one gunyah, and all three of us lived together in another.

  Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III

  Karl Ritter von Scherzer