Part 25 (1/2)

”The basalt or `bluestone,' which is well adapted to structural purposes, and generally obtains where durability is desired”

1883 J Hector, `Handbook to New Zealand,' p 62:

”Basalts, locally called `bluestones,' occur of a quality useful for road-metal, house-blocks, and ordinary rubble s of the Royal Society of Tasmania,' p xx

[Letter from Mr S H Wintle]:

”The newer basalts, which in Victoria have filled up so extensively Miocene and Pliocene valleys, and river channels, are chiefly vesicular Zeolitic dolerites and anaeht-coloured Mals in Melbourne”

<hw>Blue-tongued Lizard</hw>, n naroluteus, Gray, a co to the family Scincidae

The naue, and on account of its sluggish habits it is also often called the Sleepy lizard

1887 F McCoy, `Prodroy of Victoria,' Dec 14, pl 131:

”Not uncoenerally called the `Blue-tongued Lizard,' or `Sleepy Lizard'”

<hw>Blue-wing</hw>, n a sportsland) for the bird called the Shoveller (qv)

<hw>Bluey</hw>, n (1) A blue blanket comen in Australia He wraps his bundle in it, and the whole is called a Swag (qv) To hu on the back

(2) In the ildernesses of Western Tash shi+rt or blouse is lish sland call it a ”Baltic shi+rt”

1890 `The Argus,' Aug 16, p 13, col 2:

”We shall have to huriculture of Australia and New Zealand,' p 73:

”`Hu bluey' is for a workman to walk in search of work”

1891 W Tilley, `The Wild West of Tasmania,' p 29:

”Leehan presents an animated sceneHeavily laden drays, pack-horses andfros, surveyors in their `blueys'all aid effectively in the panorama”

<hw>Board</hw>, n term used by shearers See quotation

1893 `The Herald' (Melbourne), Dec 23, p 6, col 1:

”`The board' is the technical name for the floor on which the sheep are shorn”

With a full board, with a full complement of shearers

1894 `The Herald,' Oct 6, p 1 Col 2:

”The secretary of the Pastoralists' associationreports that the following stations have started shearing with full boards”

<hw>Boar-fish</hw>, n a naland to various dissi snouts