jinker

noun

1. (Australia)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.”

2. (Australia)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...”

   “A Jinker trailer is a trailer designed to transport long logs or other long pieces of material/blocks.”

3. (Australia)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.”

   “He stood in the jinker and gave the horse a great thwack on the backside with the end of the reins.”

   “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 confused with a timber-hauling jinker, which has little in common.”

   “Near the homestead they came upon Peter sitting on the shaft of a jinker, crooning a corroboree song and gazing so intently at the coffin-like ridge that he did not see them.”

verb

1. (transitive)To transport by such a vehicle.

   “Stokes […] organised for a house to be jinkered to the farm from one of his properties.”