fishhook
Language:
Australian:
Bur-ra
English JS Main:
fishhook
English:
A fish-hook
Category:
artefact: fishing
Source:
King in Hunter
Page:
407.2
Line:
2
Respelt:
bara
Part of speech:
noun
Date:
1792
Meaning Clue:
‘Berá’: birá = ‘fish hook’: Dawes [b:17:12.1] [BB]
‘berara’: bira-ra = ‘some fish hooks (or the shells’: Dawes [b:29:14.2] [BB]
‘Bir-ra-bir-ra’: Bira-bira = ‘The rock in the channel’: Anon [c:38:6] [BB]
‘Birrur Birah’: Bira-bira = ‘Sow and Pigs’: Larmer HARBOUR 1853 [419:14] [BB]
‘Birra-birragal-leon’: Bira-bira-galyån = ‘Her tribe’ (’Gony-ar-a’): Anon [c:5:13] [BB]
"Bur-ra" bara = "A fish-hook" fishhook: King in Hunter [:407.2:2] [BB]
‘bur-ra’: bara = ‘A hook’: Collins 1 [507.2:1] [BB]
‘bur-ra’: bara = ‘Fish Hook’: Southwell [147.2:29] [BB]
‘barra’: bara = ‘a fish hook’: Bowman: Camden [21:119] [DG?]
Source Details:
Originally published as An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island,with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the Publication of Phillip's Voyage, compiled from the Official Papers including the Journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the Voyages from the First Sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the Return of that Ship's Company to England in 1792.
By John Hunter, Esqr., Post Captain in His Majesty's Navy.
Illustrated with Seventeen Maps, Charts, Views, & Other Embellishments
Drawn on the Spot by Captains Hunter & Bradley, Lieutenant Dawes, & Governor King. London.
Printed For John Stockdale, Piccadilly, January 1, 1793.
Comment:
‘Bur-ra’: bara = ‘A fish-hook’: King in Hunter [407.2:2] [BB]