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1900 M. Ferrars & B. Ferrars Burma v. 118 (caption) Pushing the logs off the shoals (aung).]

1901 G. H. Evans Treat. Elephants i. 9 A well-trained tusker always commands a good price; he is so much more useful both in the yards and forests, as with his tusks he can ‘oung’.., stack timber, assist in getting logs over obstacles, &c.

1901 G. H. Evans Treat. Elephants xvi. 191 It is advisable for some time after such an accident [to the loins] that the animal be loaded lightly; it is also as well not to put him to any heavy work such as aunging heavy timber.

1935 R. Campbell Teak-wallah iv. 44 Is there any spectacle, I wonder, that can surpass in magnificence the sight of twenty or thirty elephants, all in the prime of condition, ‘ounging’ timber down a swollen jungle stream?

1935 R. Campbell Teak-wallah xiv. 208 Mounted on a tusker, I spent all day riding up and down the river, superintending the work of the ‘ounging’ elephants and seeing that they did not allow stacks to form.

2000 A. Ghosh Glass Palace (2001) viii. 90 A year later he was already a pe-si, or back-rider, working with an aunging herd, specialising in the clearing of streams.