Austral English. Edward Ellis Morris
of New South Wales, in contempt for its size.
1889. Rev. J. H. Zillmann, `Australian Life,' p. 30:
"`The cabbage garden,' old cynical Sir John Robertson, of New South Wales, once called Victoria, but a garden notwithstanding. Better at any rate `the cabbage garden' than the mere sheep run or cattle paddock."
<hw>Cabbage-Palm</hw>, <i>n.</i> same as <i>Cabbage-tree</i> (1) (q.v.).
<hw>Cabbage-tree</hw>, <i>n</i> (1)Name given to various palm trees of which the heart of the young leaves is eaten like the head of a cabbage. In Australia the name is applied to the fan palm, <i>Livistona inermis</i>, R. Br., and more commonly to <i>Livistona australis</i>, Martius. In New Zealand the name is given to various species of Cordyline, especially to <i>Cordyline indivisa</i>. See also <i>Flame-tree</i> (2).
1769. `Capt. Cook's Journal,' ed. Wharton (1893), p. 144:
"We likewise found one Cabage Tree which we cut down for the sake of the cabage."
1802. G.Barrington, `History of New South Wales,' p. 60:
"Even the ships crews helped, except those who brought the cabbage trees."
1846. J. L. Stokes, `Discovery in Australia,' vol. ii. c. iv. p. 132:
"Cabbage-tree … grew in abundance."
1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 72:
"Several of my companions suffered by eating too much of the cabbage-palm."
1865. W. Howitt, `Discovery in Australia,' vol. i. p. 414:
"Clumps of what the people of King George's Sound call cabbage-trees."
1867. F. Hochstetter, `New Zealand,' p. 240:
"There stands an isolated `cabbage-tree' (Ti of the natives; <i>Cordyline Australis</i>) nearly thirty feet high, with ramified branches and a crown of luxuriant growth."
(2) A large, low-crowned, broad-brimmed hat, made out of the leaves of the Cabbage-tree (<i>Livistona</i>).
1802. G. Barrington, `History of New South Wales,' 335:
"This hat, made of white filaments of the cabbage-tree, seemed to excite the attention of the whole party."
1852. G. F. P., `Gold Pen and Pencil Sketches,' xv.:
"With scowl indignant flashing from his eye,
As though to wither each unshaven wretch,
Jack jogs along, nor condescends reply,
As to the price his cabbage-tree might fetch."
1864. `Once a Week,' Dec. 31, p. 45, The Bulla Bulla Bunyip':
"Lushy Luke endeavoured to sober himself by dipping his head in the hollowed tree-trunk which serves for the water-trough of an up-country Australian inn. He forgot, however, to take off his `cabbage-tree' before he ducked, and angry at having made a fool of himself, he gave fierce orders, in a thick voice, for his men to fall in, shoulder arms, and mark time."
1865. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `History of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia,' vol. i. pp. 160, 161:
"The cabbage-palm was also a new species, called by Mr. Brown the <i>Livistonia inermis</i>. It was abundant; but the cabbage (the heart of the young budding leaves) too small to be useful as an article of food, at least to a ship's company. But the leaves were found useful. These dried and drawn into strips were plaited into hats for the men, and to this day the cabbage-tree hat is very highly esteemed by the Australians, as a protection from the sun, and allowing free ventilation." [Note]: "A good cabbage-tree hat, though it very much resembles a common straw hat, will fetch as much as £3."
1878. `The Australian,' vol. i. p. 527:
" … trousers, peg-top shaped, and wore a new cabbage-tree hat."
1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 33:
"A brand-new cabbage-tree hat protected his head."
<hw>Cabbage-tree Mob</hw>, and <hw>Cabbagites</hw>, obsolete Australian slang for modern <i>Larrikins</i> (q.v)., because wearing cabbage-tree hats.
1852. G. C. Mundy, `Our Antipodes `(edition 1855), p. 17:
"There are to be found round the doors of the Sydney Theatre a sort of `loafers' known as the <i>Cabbage-tree mob</i>—a class who, in the spirit of the ancient tyrant, one might excusably wish had but one nose in order to make it a bloody one. … Unaware of the propensities of the cabbagites he was by them furiously assailed."
<hw>Cad</hw>, <i>n</i>. name in Queensland for the <i>Cicada</i> (q.v.).
1896. `The Australasian,' Jan. 11, p. 76, col. 1:
"From the trees sounds the shrill chirp of large green cicada (native cads as the bushmen call them)."
<hw>Caddie</hw>, <i>n</i>. a bush name for the slouch-hat or wide-awake. In the Australian bush the brim is generally turned down at the back and sometimes all round.
<hw>Cadet</hw>, <i>n</i>. term used in New Zealand, answering to the Australian <i>Colonial Experience</i>, or <i>jackaroo</i> (q.v.).
1866. Lady Barker, `Station Life in New Zealand,' p. 68:
"A cadet, as they are called—he is a clergyman's son learning sheepfarming under our auspices."
1871. C. L. Money, `Knocking About in New Zealand,' p. 6:
"The military designation of cadet was applied to any young fellow who was attached to a sheep or cattle station in the same capacity as myself. He was `neither flesh nor fowl nor good red herring,' neither master nor man. He was sent to work with the men, but not paid."
<hw>Caloprymnus</hw>, <i>n</i>. the scientific name of the genus called the <i>Plain Kangaroo-Rat</i>. (Grk. <i>kalos</i>, beautiful, and <i>prumnon</i>, hinder part.) It has bright flanks. See <i>Kangaroo-Rat</i>.
<hw>Camp</hw>, <i>n</i>. (1) A place to live in, generally temporary; a rest.
1885. H. Finch-Hatton, `Advance Australia,' pp. 46, 47:
" I was shown my camp, which was a slab but about a hundred yards away from the big house. … I was rather tired, and not sorry for the prospect of a camp."
(2) A place for mustering cattle.
1885. H. Finch-Hatton, `Advance Australia,' p. 64:
"All about the run, at intervals of fire or six miles, are cattle-camps, and the cattle that belong to the surrounding districts are mustered on their respective camps."
1896. A. B. Paterson, `Man from Snowy River,' p. 26:
"There was never his like in the open bush,
And never his match on the cattle-camps."
(3) In Australia, frequently used for a camping-out expedition. Often in composition with "out," a <i>camp-out</i>.
1869. `Colonial Monthly,' vol. iv.p. 289:
"A young fellow with even a moderate degree of sensibility must be excited by the novelty of his first `camp-out' in the Australian bush."
1880. R. H. Inglis, `Australian Cousins,' p. 233:
"We're going to have a regular camp; we intend going to Port
Hocking to have some shooting, fishing, and general diversion."
(4) A name for Sydney and for Hobart, now long obsolete, originating when British military forces were stationed there.
1827.