skillions

_outside_; there the hubbub, and dust, and apparent confusion are great, -- a constant succession of woolly sheep being brought up to fill the "skillions" (from whence the shearers take them as they want them), and the newly-shorn ones, white, clean, and bewildered-looking, being turned out after they have passed through

Station Life in New Zealand 1871

Which doesn't make the observation about how a community might be willing to pay skillions to save a known life, etc... uninteresting , or unworthy of being poked-around-in from an economic point of view.

Valuing Life, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

But there are skillions of people in our beautiful country who prefer football, basketball, baseball, soap operas, late night movies or porn.

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Everything the Arisians had done for umpteen skillions of years had been aimed at the Eddorians.

Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

So it has to force its way through whillions and skillions of ohms of resistance, so only the most powerful stimuli -- 'maximum signal' in your jargon, perhaps?

Subspace Survivors H. R. van [Illustrator] Dongen 1927

These squat old cots generally had thresholds higher than the floors; their home-made slab doors knew no fastening but a latch with a string unfailingly on the outside day and night, and with their beetling verandahs and tiny box skillions, were crouchingly hard set upon the genial plain.

Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

His big slab-and-shingle and brick-floored kitchen, with its skillions, built on more generous plans and specifications than even the house itself, was the wanderer's goal and home in bad weather.

The Rising of the Court Henry Lawson 1894

The "house" -- a low, two-roomed affair, with skillions -- was built of half-round slabs and stringy-bark, and was nearly all roof; the bark, being darkened from recent rain, gave it a drearier appearance than usual.

Over the Sliprails Henry Lawson 1894

The old slab farmhouse and skillions and out-houses, and the new square brick house built in front, were all asleep in the moonlight.

The Rising of the Court Henry Lawson 1894

They're quite likely to have gone up into the back ranges, but unless they're gone up into the sky I'm bound to have 'em in the skillions to-night.

A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters Mary Anne 1871