The following five quotations from vocabulariesprove the early meaning of the word in the Port Jacksondistrict, and its varying uses at later dates elsewhere. Meliaceae.
276: Villages, which are always called `townships,' spring upsuddenly round a railway-station or beside some country inn. See Run. These are a form ofpalm which grows in feathery tufts along a pliant stalk, andfastens itself as a creeper upon other trees. See Oak and She-Oak.
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