throwing stick

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Noun

throwing stick (plural throwing sticks)

  1. A wooden tool used to throw a dart, spear or other missile; a spear thrower; (Australia) a woomera.
    • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World , London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
      "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."
    • 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 176:
      On another occasion, Bungaree gave a spear and throwing stick to local people and showed them how to use them at Pumicestone River.
  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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