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neck

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
[Cad-lwar
English JS Main: 
neck
English: 
The neck
Category: 
body parts and products
Sub-category: 
head
Source: 
King in Hunter
Page: 
408.1
Line: 
16.1
Respelt: 
gadal-wå
Part of speech: 
noun
Date: 
1792
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: 
Cad-lwar: prob. ERROR for ’cal-war’, similar to cal-yar, cal-yang [JS, Sunday 25 April 2004]

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