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myall /ˈmʌɪəl /noun1An Australian acacia tree with silvery foliage sometimes used as fodder.- Genus Acacia, family Leguminosae: several species, in particular A. pendula, which has violet-scented timber.
2Australian An Australian Aboriginal living in a traditional way.I was told that they shot down myalls up and down the Lander River for many miles....- The luluing of the famished myall mingled with the howl of the hunting dingo.
- Telfer's accounts of this and other pitched battles with ‘myalls’ might be dismissed by the sceptic as unsupported hearsay.
Origin Mid 19th century (in sense 1): sense 2 from Dharuk myal, miyal 'person from another tribe'; sense 1 is perhaps an unexplained transferred use of sense 2. Rhymes denial, dial, espial, Lyall, mistrial, Niall, phial, trial, vial, viol |