单词 | yandying |
释义 | > as lemmasˈyandying ˈyandying n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun] > treatment of seed > separating grass-seed yandying1933 1933 C. Fenner Bunyips & Billabongs vi. 158 When a gin has collected a coolamon..full of seed she has also a good deal of sand, dust, grass and leaves. But by shaking and twisting the coolamon in a particularly skilful way an almost perfect separation is made. This art of separation is called ‘yandying’. 1944 M. J. O'Reilly Bowyangs & Boomerangs 48 Yandying, in blackfellow language, means shake~about. It is the natives' method of separating the grass seeds from the husks. 1962 D. Stuart Yaralie i. 9 While her mother had sat resting from her work of yandying and specking..she had wandered about. < as lemmas |
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