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throwing stick en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A wooden tool used to throw a dart, spear or other missile; a spearthrower; (Australia) a woomera.
   • On another occasion, Bungaree gave a spear and throwing stick to local people and showed them how to use them at Pumicestone River. 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 176:
   • "What could his sling, his throwing-stick, or his arrow avail him against such forces as have been loose to-night? Even with a modern rifle it would be all odds on the monster." 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
2. A simple weapon consisting of a stick (often curved) that is thrown, often so that it spins in flight; an early type of boomerang.

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Relateds

woomera · atlatl · spearthrower · throw stick

Translations (1)

nl werphout (stick that is thrown as a weapon)