pademelon (pademelon)

[Also padmelon, pedmelon, accom. paddy - melon, and melon; an Australian name.] A brush-kangaroo or whallabee; an ordinary kangaroo of the genus Hal maturus, such as H. the tid is and related species. See cut under Halm at urus. In the neighbourhood of these scrubs the game was especially plentiful; and kangaroos, paddy - melons , wall a bees, and kangaroo rats cro ed the road continually. A. C. Grant, Bush Life in Queensland, L. 47. pad-hook (pad'huk), n. 1. A kind of center draft hook used on trawl-lines in New England since 1884, having the shank flattened at the upper end instead of an eye, whence the name. -2. In saddlery , a curved hook on the backpad for holding up the bearing-rein. pad-horset (pad'hors), n. [ pad1 , a road, + horse1. Cf. pad - nag and pad3 .] A road-horse; a pad-nag; a pad. Oh for a pad - horse , pack-horse, or a post-horse, To bear me on his neck, his back, or his croup! B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, iv. &