bombora

bombora
A shallow isolated piece of reef located a distance offshore.

1933: Bombora is an aboriginal word applied to the high-crested wave which breaks ... over submerged rocks near the coastline. — magazine, 27 May 1933, page 24. Quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, second edition, 1985, , ISBN 0-424-00113-6.


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