Jinker

/ˈdʒɪŋkə/ · noun

Meaning

(Australia) A high wheeled wagon designed to carry lumber suspended under the body of the vehicle..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Australia) A high wheeled wagon designed to carry lumber suspended under the body of the vehicle.
2. (Australia) A specialised trailer for carrying long loads such as logs or other large loads such as when moving buildings.
3. (Australia) A two-wheeled open horse drawn carriage; a sulky, trap, road cart or gig.
4. (transitive) To transport by such a vehicle.

Example Sentences

[…] exhibited was a newly designed jinker, invented by Mr. John Allan.[…] can load a tree weighing 1½ tons with the greatest ease.

The contractor, Mr. A. F. Pincombe, who moved the building intact on a jinker...

A Jinker trailer is a trailer designed to transport long logs or other long pieces of material/blocks.

I fell out of the jinker and it ran over me but again I survived that without too much trouble.

He stood in the jinker and gave the horse a great thwack on the backside with the end of the reins.

These two-wheeled passenger vehicles [sulkies], also known as gigs or jinkers in Victoria, could be found in every town and country district [quoting from "Sulkies, Whiskeys and Gigs" by Jeff Powell]....Not to be confused with a timber-hauling jinker, which has little in common.

Near the homestead they came upon Peter sitting on the shaft of a jinker, crooning a corroboree song and gazing so intently at the coffin-like ridge that he did not see them.

Stokes […] organised for a house to be jinkered to the farm from one of his properties.

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• jinkers
• jinkering
• jinkered

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