jinker

I'm going to have another one before I get up in that jinker again."

I want to see the world from up in that jinker."

They got up into the jinker and drove through the empty streets to the hotel.

Thus then was the team attached to the dray or jinker.

They came into the stable yard and there was the jinker, the horse patiently waiting to take his master home.

Once across the creek the contractor raised the house on to a large wooden wheeled jinker."

Ada staggered to the edge of the jinker platform.

'He helped you up into the jinker on Thursday.'

They came to the jinker with the grey standing in the shafts; she went to untie the reins.

She pointed at the ancient jinker platform up between the gables and skylights on the roof.

Where did you leave your jinker?'

"Up on the jinker platform.

The group broke up with Greogi leading some people upstairs to the jinker platform to re-launch the sonie.

Got your jinker here?'

Bullock teams also dragged the heavy logs from some very steep, rough country to be loaded onto a jinker for hauling to a saw mill.

Ada turned, groping in the dark along the jinker platform, feeling wet bodies there, searching for the flechette rifle her savior had dropped.

Harman launched the oval disk from the ancient jinker platform high on Ardis Hall's gabled rooftop.

On steep descents logs or trees were dragged behind the dray, wagon or jinker to slow the load's descent and protect the team from injury.

I had a few minutes alone up on the jinker platform with the sonie and I figured out how to interface my palm functions with its display."

Two jinkers could also be connected, with the back jinker linked by a log which would be chained to the front jinker.

A rock flew up out of the darkness and the man or woman fell backward off the jinker platform, the body sliding down the steep roof and dropping away.

The "wheelers" or "polers" were the older, heavier, trained bullocks which were closest to the dray or jinker and helped to slow the load when necessary.

The long handled whip permitted the bullocky to control his bullocks while keeping a safe working distance from the danger of being run down by a large dray or jinker.

His sons drove large and powerful utilities rather too fast, but the old man had never learned to drive a car and came to town each market day in a jinker, a two-wheeled trap drawn by an old horse.

Frequently comprising long trains of bullocks, yoked in pairs, they were used for hauling drays, wagon or jinker loads of goods and lumber prior to the construction of railways and the formation of roads.