Wurley

Quick meaning: Wurley is a noun meaning (chiefly South Australia) An Australian indigenous shelter made from small branches with the leaves still attached.

Meaning

(chiefly South Australia) An Australian indigenous shelter made from small branches with the leaves still attached.

More Meanings

1. (chiefly South Australia, by extension) A settlement made up of such shelters.

Example Sentences

And so those boys with stealthy pace / Returned the saddles to their place; / Then to their wurly quickly hied, / No doubt delighted with their ride.

Poor [William John] Wills's remains we found lying in the wurly in which he died, and where [John] King, after his return from seeking the natives, had buried him with sand and rushes.

After hunting through the forest into the afternoon I came to the wurley that had inside it a coolamon and a possum-skin cape, a club, a hatchet with a metal head, and a knife with a horn handle.

Before night fell, they made themselves a shelter like a wurly by collecting large Wollemi pine fronds from the forest floor, leaning them against each other to make a peaked hut and joining them together with vines. It would offer some protection while they slept.

Word Forms

• wurleys
• wurlie
• wurly

Synonyms for wurley

Depending on context, synonyms include gunya, gunyah, humpy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wurly, wurlie, wicket, waver, larrakitj, yelm.

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