humpy

• "I lived in a humpy," Anderson tells me matter-of-factly when I inquire about her early years growing up in the desert.
• "I loved going to school from that little humpy," she continues.
• Almost on the verge of the steep-to wall of rock was a large and regularly built "humpy," in which Douglas Fraser and Kate lived. —  Tom Gerrard
• He had bought an empty humpy, and, instead of getting tight, Why, the diggers heard him working like a lunatic all night: And next day a sign of canvas, writ in characters of tar, Claimed the humpy as the office of the CAMBAROORA STAR Well, I cannot read, that's honest, but I had a digger friend Who would read the paper to me from the title to the end; And the STAR contained a leader running thieves and spielers down, With a slap against claim-jumping, and a poem made by Brown. —  In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses
• We got straight on to the big pressure waves, and headed for the humpy rock at the base of the Cloudmaker. —  The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913

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