ii. p. 21:

"Impenetrable vine-scrubs line the river-banks at intervals."

1890. C. Lumholtz, `Among Cannibals,' p. 25:

"Vitis in great abundance and of many varieties are found
especially in the scrubs, hence the colonists call this sort
of brush, vine-scrub."

<hw>Vine, Balloon</hw>. See <i>Balloon Vine</i>.

<hw>Vine, Burdekin</hw>. Called also <i>Round Yam</i>,
<i>Vitis opaca</i>, F. v. M., <i>N.O. Ampelideae</i>.

<hw>Vine, Caustic</hw>, i.q. <i>Caustic-Plant</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Vine, Lawyer</hw>. See <i>Lawyer</i>.

<hw>Vine, Macquarie Harbour</hw>, or <hw>Macquarie Harbour
Grape</hw> (q.v.). Same as <i>Native Ivy</i>. See <i>Ivy</i>.

1891. `Chambers' Encyclopaedia,' s.v. <i>Polygonaeae</i>:

"<i>Muhlenbeckia adpressa</i> is the Macquarie Harbour Vine of
Tasmania, an evergreen climbing or trailing shrub of most rapid
growth, sometimes 60 feet in length. It produces racemes of
fruit somewhat resembling grapes or currants, the nut being
invested with the large and fleshy segments of the calyx. The
fruit is sweetish and subacid, and is used for tarts."

1884. R. L. A. Davies, `Poems and Literary Remains,' p. 99:

"How we saw the spreading myrtles,
Saw the cypress and the pine,
Saw the green festoons and bowers
Of the dark Macquarie vine,
Saw the blackwoods and the box-trees,
And the spiral sassafrases,
Saw the fairy fern-trees mantled
With their mossy cloak of grasses."

<hw>Vine, Native Pepper</hw>. See <i>Climbing Pepper</i>,
under <i>Pepper</i>.

<hw>Vine, Wonga Wonga</hw>. See <i>Wonga Wonga Vine</i>.

W

<hw>Waddy</hw>. (1) An aboriginal's war club. But the word is
used for wood generally, even for firewood. In a kangaroo
hunt, a man will call out, "Get off and kill it with a waddy,"
i.e. any stick casually picked up. In pigeon-English, "little
fellow waddy" means a small piece of wood.

In various dictionaries, e.g. Stanford, the word is entered as
of aboriginal origin, but many now hold that it is the English
word <i>wood</i> mispronounced by aboriginal lips.
L. E. Threlkeld, in his `Australian Grammar,' at p. 10, enters
it as a "barbarism "--"<i>waddy</i>, a cudgel." A `barbarism,'
with Threlkeld, often means no more than `not in use on the
Hunter River'; but in this case his remark may be more
appropriate.

On the other hand, the word is given as an aboriginal word in
Hunter's `Vocabulary of the Sydney Dialect' (1793), and in
Ridley's `Kamila