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American
[kahy-lee]
/ ˈkaɪ li /
noun
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a variant spelling of kylie
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Perhaps as fine a sight as can be seen in the whole circle of native sports is the killing cockatoos with the kiley, or boomerang.
From
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
by Grey, George
One of them had a kiley, or boomerang, and each carried a rude hatchet of stone.
From
Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1.
With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During
The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43.
By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative
Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea.
by Stokes, John Lort
One of the natives seen to-day had with him a kiley, so different in shape to any we had previously seen that I preserved a sketch of it.
From
Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1.
With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During
The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43.
By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative
Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea.
by Stokes, John Lort
They had no weapon, save one kiley or boomerang, and bowed down until they almost kissed the water.
From
Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1.
With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During
The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43.
By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative
Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea.
by Stokes, John Lort
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