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22: He commenced working along with several companions at surfacedigging and fossicking. A mine is said to duffer out,when it has ceased to be productive. In English, the word slab, as appliedto timber, means an outside piece taken from a log in sawingit into boards, planks, etc. often pronounced Koladdyand Koladdy, and spelt variously; the Maori word forthe flowering stem of Phormium tenax, J.

Heywood, `Vacation Tour at the Antipodes,' p. All species ofPlagianthus and Hoheria are to the colonistsRibbonwood, especially Plagianthus betulinus,A. ' A bit of a fig of tobaccowas called `a nugget of tobacco. In the second spelling the e is hardly sounded.