20040102
kylie
in the Oxford English DictionaryW. Austral.
[Native name.]
A boomerang.
1839 N. OGLE Col. W. Australia 57 (Morris) In every part of this great continent they have the koilee, or boomerang. 1846 J. L. STOKES Discov. Australia I. iv. 72 One of them had a kiley or bomerang. 1885 M. A. BARKER Lett. to Guy 177 (Morris) The kylie (what is called the boomerang in other parts of Australia), a curiously curved and flat stick, about a foot long and two or three inches wide.
SECOND EDITION
1989
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