shiralee

  1. Noun.  burden, load.
  2. Noun.  (Australia) (colloquial) (obsolete) A type of swag shaped roughly like a leg of mutton when rolled up, carried over the shoulder usually with some other load on the chest to balance it. (Reference: D'Arcy Niland in the ''Aboriginalities'' section of ''The Bulletin'' magazine, 27 September 1957. Quoted by Bill Wannan, ''Australian Folklore'', Lansdowne Press, 1970, reprint 1979 ISBN 0-7018-1309-1, under "Shiralee", page 475.).

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