Swag: A bundle or roll of bedding and other personal items.
Swagman: A man who travels from place to place looking for work,
e.g. carrying a swag.
Tucker: Food.
Wallaby: One of a number of marsupial species of the genus Wallabia, etc.,
related to the kangaroo, but smaller; (colloquial) "on the wallaby (track)",
on the move, on the road.
Waltz Matilda: To wander with a swag. "Waltz", to travel in circles.
Warrigal: Originally the dingo, or native dog of Australia;
by association, anything wild; brumbies (wild horses).
Water-bag/waterbag: A bag for carrying water, usually canvas.
Wattle: Any of a number of shrubs or trees of the genus Acacia,
having off-white or yellow flowers. So named because
the branches were used to weave wattle, a type of construction
made of interwoven branches and the like.
Wombat: Any of several species of burrowing marsupials, family Vombatidae,
which vaguely resemble small bears; (colloquial) an ignorant person.
Yarran: A small tree, Acacia homalophylla, also the bastard myall,
A. glaucescens.
Notes on the text:
"An Answer to Various Bards" appeared 10 Oct. 1892 as one of a series of poems
in the Sydney `Bulletin', debating what life in the bush was like,
or, the city versus the bush (according to the interpretation),
primarily between A.
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