alfour, `Sketch of New South Wales,' p. 17:

"The Lachlan black, who, with his right hand full of spears,
his whaddie and heleman in his left, was skipping in the air,
shouting his war cry."

185o. J. B. Clutterbuck, `Port Phillip in 1849,' p. 54:

"A waddy, a most formidable bludgeon."

1855. G. C. Mundy, `Our Antipodes,' p. 101:

"The waddy is a heavy, knobbed club about two feet long, and is
used for active service, foreign or domestic. It brains the
enemy in the battle, or strikes senseless the poor gin in cases
of disobedience or neglect."

1864. `Once a Week,' Dec. 31, p. 45, `The Bulla Bulla
Bunyip':

"The landlord swore to the apparition of a huge blackfellow
flourishing a phantasmal `waddy.'"

1879. C. W. Schuermann, `Native Tribes of Australia--Port
Lincoln Tribe,' p. 214:

"The wirris, by the whites incorrectly named waddies, are also
made of gum saplings; they are eighteen inches in length, and
barely one inch in diameter, the thin end notched in order to
afford a firm hold for the hand, while towards the other end
there is a slight gradual bend like that of a sword; they are,
however, without knobs, and every way inferior to the wirris of
the Adelaide tribes. The natives use this weapon principally
for throwing at kangaroo-rats or other small animals."

1886. R. Henty, `Australiana,' p. 18:

"The `waddy' is a powerful weapon in the hands of the native.
With unerring aim he brings down many a bird, and so materially
assists in replenishing the family larder."

1892. J. Fraser, `Aborigines of New South Wales,' p. 74:

"A general name for all Australian clubs is `waddy,' and,
although they are really clubs, they are often used as missiles
in battle."

(2) The word is sometimes used for a walking-stick.

<hw>Waddy</hw>, <i>v. trans</i>. to strike with a waddy.

1855. Robert Lowe (Viscount Sherbrooke), `Songs of the
Squatters,' canto ii. st. 7:

"When the white thieves had left me, the black thieves
appeared,
My shepherds they waddied, my cattle they speared."

1869. `Victorian Hansard,' Nov. 18, vol. ix. p. 2310, col. 2:

"They were tomahawking them, and waddying them, and breaking
their backs."

1882. A. Tolmer, `Reminiscences,' p. 291:

"In the scuffle the native attempted to waddy him."

1893. `The Argus,' April 8, p. 4, col. 3:

"Only three weeks before he had waddied his gin to death
for answering questions asked her by a blacktracker."

1896. A. B. Pat