<i>n</i>. i.q. <i>Pinkwood</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Leawill</hw>, or <hw>Leeangle</hw> (with other spellings),
<i>n</i>. aboriginal names for a native weapon, a wooden club
bent at the striking end. The name is Victorian, especially of
the West; probably derived from <i>lea</i> or <i>leang</i>, or
<i>leanyook</i>, a tooth. The aboriginal forms are
<i>langeel</i>, or <i>leanguel</i>, and <i>lea-wil</i>,
or <i>le-ow-el</i>. The curve evidently helped the English
termination, angle.

1845. Charles Griffith, `Present State and Prospects of the
Port Phillip District of New South Wales,' p. 155:

"The liangle is, I think, described by Sir Thomas Mitchell.
It is of the shape of a pickaxe, with only one pick. Its name
is derived from another native word, leang, signifying a tooth.
It is a very formidable weapon, and used only in war."

1846. J. L. Stokes, `Discoveries in Australia,' vol. II.
c. xiii. p. 479:

"A weapon used by the natives called a Liangle, resembling a
miner's pick."

1863. M. K. Beveridge,' Gatherings among the Gum-trees,'
p. 56:

"Let us hand to hand attack him
With our Leeawells of Buloite."

Ibid. (In Glossary) p. 83:

"<i>Leeawell</i>, a kind of war club."

1867. G. Gordon McCrae, `Mimba,' p. 9:

"The long liangle's nascent form
Fore-spoke the distant battle-storm."

1886. R. Henty, `Australiana,' p. 21:

"His war-club or leeangle."

1889. P. Beveridge, `Aborigines of Victoria and Riverina,
p. 67:

"Of those [waddies] possessing--we might almost say---a
national character, the shapes of which seem to have come down
generation after generation, from the remotest period, the
Leawill is the most deadly-looking weapon. It is usually three
feet long, and two and a half inches thick, having a pointed
head, very similar both in shape and size to a miner's driving
pick; in most cases the oak (Casuarina) is used in the
manufacture of this weapon; it is used in close quarters only,
and is a most deadly instrument in the hands of a ruthless foe,
or in a general melee such as a midnight onslaught."

<hw>Leeangle</hw>, <i>n</i>. i.q. <i>Leawill</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Leek</hw>, <i>n</i>. a small parrot. See <i>Greenleek</i>.

<hw>Leek, Native</hw>, <i>n</i>. a poisonous Australian plant,
<i>Bulbine bulbosa</i>, Haw., <i>N.O. Liliaceae</i>. Called
also <i>Native Onion</i>. Its racemes of bright yellow flowers
make the paddocks gay in spring.

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