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"ref": "1896 September 12, “Improved jinker”, in The Leader (Melbourne AU), page 12:",
"text": "... exhibited was a newly designed jinker, invented by Mr. John Allan.",
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"ref": "1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 155:",
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"text": "A Jinker trailer is a trailer designed to transport long logs or other long pieces of material/blocks.",
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"(Australia) A specialised trailer for carrying long loads such as logs or other large loads such as when moving buildings."
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"ref": "2004 March 11, Australians at War Film Archive, Harold (Mac) Ford:",
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"ref": "2017 July 11, 432 Pages-Jinker-Monissa's Place:",
"text": "These two-wheeled passenger vehicles [sulkies], also known as gigs or jinkers in Victoria, could be found in every town and country district [quoting from \"Sulkies, Whiskeys and Gigs\" by Jeff Powell]....Not to be confused with a timber-hauling jinker, which has little in common.",
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"ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 179:",
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},
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"text": "These two-wheeled passenger vehicles [sulkies], also known as gigs or jinkers in Victoria, could be found in every town and country district [quoting from \"Sulkies, Whiskeys and Gigs\" by Jeff Powell]....Not to be confused with a timber-hauling jinker, which has little in common.",
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