jinker

To transport by such a vehicle.

Noun

  1. A high wheeled wagon designed to carry lumber suspended under the body of the vehicle.
    • […] exhibited was a newly designed jinker, invented by Mr. John Allan.[…] can load a tree weighing 1½ tons with the greatest ease. - 1896 September 12, “Improved jinker”, in The Leader (Melbourne AU), page 12:
  2. A specialised trailer for carrying long loads such as logs or other large loads such as when moving buildings.
    • The contractor, Mr. A. F. Pincombe, who moved the building intact on a jinker... - 1903 March 18, “East Broken Hill School”, in Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, AU, page 1:
    • A Jinker trailer is a trailer designed to transport long logs or other long pieces of material/blocks. - 2024 June 5 (last accessed), Modern Transport Engineers Australia:
  3. A two-wheeled open horse drawn carriage; a sulky, trap, road cart or gig.
    • I fell out of the jinker and it ran over me but again I survived that without too much trouble. - 2004 March 11, Australians at War Film Archive, Harold (Mac) Ford:
    • He stood in the jinker and gave the horse a great thwack on the backside with the end of the reins. - 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 155:
    • 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...

Origin

Variant of janker.

Forms

jinkers

Verb

  1. To transport by such a vehicle.
    • Stokes […] organised for a house to be jinkered to the farm from one of his properties. - 2013, Margaret Simons, Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man:

Forms

jinkers jinkering jinkered