Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hut or camp of the aborigines of Australia.
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Examples
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They also used to assist me in making a wurley, or breakwind, whenever they shifted camp.
A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne
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In one case I remember the ghost was represented to have set fire to a _wurley_
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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At last old Jimmy stopped and said we had reached the place where Pylebung ought to be, but it was not; and here, he said, pointing to the ground, was to be our wurley, or camp, for the night.
Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866
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A young black fellow here said he had found a white man's musket a long way up the creek, and that he had got it in his wurley, and would give it to me for flour, tea, sugar, tobacco, matches, and clothes.
Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866
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Poor Wills's remains we found lying in the wurley in which he died, and where King, after his return from seeking for the natives, had buried him with sand and rushes.
Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia William John Wills 1847
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They also used to assist me in making a wurley or breakwind whenever they shifted camp.
Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia William John Wills 1847
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