Austral. Also lliangle, leonile, langeel. [Native word, a derivation of leang or liang tooth. Other forms (see Morris) are leeawell, leawill.] A wooden club bent at the striking end. (Morris, Austral Eng.)
1845. C. Griffith, Port Phillip Distr. N. S. W., x. 155. The liangle is … of the shape of a pickaxe, with only one pick.
1859. The Empire (Sydney), 5 Aug., 6/2.
| The white-fellow shuns thy banks so drear; | |
| For Oona’s leangle or Cup’s boomerang— | |
| Will carry as far as his band, bang, bang. |
1867. G. G. McCrae, Māmba, 9.
| The long leangle’s nascent form | |
| Forespoke the distant battle-storm. |
1869. B. Hoare, Figures Fancy, 98. Beneath the dread leeangle blow Fell many a strong and swarthy foe.
1894. R. Etheridge, in Jrnl. Anthrop. Instit., XXIII. 317. On a Modification of the Australian Aboriginal Weapon, termed the Leonile, Langeel, Bendi, or Buccan, &c.
