jinker

Variant of janker.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɪŋkə/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋkə(ɹ)

jinker (plural jinkers)

1. (Australia) A high wheeled wagon designed to carry lumber suspended under the body of the vehicle.
   • 1896 September 12, “Improved jinker”, in The Leader (Melbourne AU), page 12:

     […] exhibited was a newly designed jinker, invented by Mr. John Allan. […] can load a tree weighing 1½ tons with the greatest ease.

2. (Australia) A specialised trailer for carrying long loads such as logs or other large loads such as when moving buildings.
   • 1903 March 18, “East Broken Hill School”, in Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, AU, page 1:

     The contractor, Mr. A. F. Pincombe, who moved the building intact on a jinker...

   • 2024 July 29 (last accessed), Modern Transport Engineers Australia‎^[1]:

     A Jinker trailer is a trailer designed to transport long logs or other long pieces of material/blocks.

3. (Australia) A two-wheeled open horse drawn carriage. A sulky, trap, road cart or gig.
   • 2004 March 11, Australians at War Film Archive, Harold (Mac) Ford‎^[2]:

     I fell out of the jinker and it ran over me but again I survived that without too much trouble.

   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 155:

     He stood in the jinker and gave the horse a great thwack on the backside with the end of the reins.

   • 2017 July 11, 432 Pages-Jinker-Monissa's Place:

     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.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia‎^[3], New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 179:

     Near the homestead they came upon Peter sitting on the shaft of a jinker, crooning a corroboree song and gazing so intently at the coffin-like ridge that he did not see them.

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