Sentence:  Before night fell, they made themselves a shelter like a <WSD>wurly</WSD> by collecting large Wollemi pine fronds from the forest floor, leaning them against each other to make a peaked hut and joining them together with vines. It would offer some protection while they slept. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An Australian indigenous shelter made from small branches with the leaves still attached.