<i>Clover</i>.

1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 143:

"It is the `Australian shamrock' of Mitchell."

<hw>Shamrock, Native</hw>, <i>n</i>. a forage plant, <i>Lotus
australis</i>, Andr., <i>N.O. Leguminosae</i>. Called
<i>Native Shamrock</i> in Tasmania.

<hw>Shanghai</hw>, <i>n</i>. a catapult. Some say
because used against Chinamen. The reason seems
inadequate.

1863. `The Leader,' Oct. 24, p. 17, col. 1:

"Turn, turn thy shanghay dread aside,
Nor touch that little bird."

1875. `Spectator' (Melbourne), May 15, p. 22, col. 1:

"The lads had with them a couple of pistols, powder, shot,
bullets, and a shanghai."

1875. Ibid. July 17, p. 123, col. 3:

"The shanghai, which, as a secret instrument of mischief, is
only less dangerous than the air-gun."

1884. `Police Offences Act, New Zealand,' sec. 4, subsec. 23:

"Rolls any cask, beats any carpet, flies any kite, uses any
bows and arrows, or catapult, or shanghai, or plays at any game
to the annoyance of any person in any public place."

1893. `The Age,' Sept. 15, p. 6, col. 7:

"The magistrate who presided on the Carlton bench yesterday,
has a decided objection to the use of shanghais, and in dealing
with three little boys, the eldest of whom was but eleven or
twelve years of age, charged with the use of these weapons in
the Prince's Park, denounced their conduct in very strong
terms. He said that he looked upon this crime as one of the
worst that a lad could be guilty of, and if he had his own way
in the matter he would order each of them to be lashed."

1895. C. French, Letter to `Argus,' Nov. 29:

"Wood swallows are somewhat sluggish and slow in their flight,
and thus fall an easy prey to either the gun or the murderous
and detestable `shanghai.'"

<hw> Shanghai-shot</hw>, <i>n</i>. a short distance,
a stone's-throw.

1874. Garnet Walch, `Head over Heels' [Introduction to
Tottlepot Poems]:

"His parents . . . residing little more than a Shanghai-shot
from Romeo Lane, Melbourne."

<hw>Shanty</hw>, <i>n</i>. (1) a hastily erected wooden house;
(2) a public-house, especially unlicensed: a sly-grog shop.
The word is by origin Keltic (Irish). In the first sense, its
use is Canadian or American; in the last, Australian. In
Barrere and Leland it is said that circus and showmen always
call a public-house a shanty.

1875. `Spectator' (Melbourne), June 26, p. 91, col. 1:

"These buildings, little better than shant