meero

Updated: May 11, 2025

One was a nice looking girl, about fourteen, but an incorrigible thief. Peerat was going to hit her a tremendous blow upon the head, which must have laid it open. She stood with her back to her husband, trembling and crying bitterly. The governor caught Peerat's arm, picked up a little switch from the ground, and told him to beat her on the shoulders with that, instead of with his meero.

W. (William) Pridden - Australia, its history and present condition: containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies,: with their respective inhabitants