bolas

How to use bolas in a sentence

• The Oensmen he describes as giants, armed with a terrible weapon—the “bolas.”

  The Land of Fire | Mayne Reid

• These bolas consist of three balls, composed either of lead or stone; two of them heavy, and the third rather lighter.

  Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests | J. J. von Tschudi

• The vicuñas, after being secured by the bolas, are killed, and the flesh is distributed in equal portions among the hunters.

  Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests | J. J. von Tschudi

• These bolas consist of three balls, composed either of lead or stone; two of them heavier than the third.

  The Desert World | Arthur Mangin

• All these freemen provided their own horses, and were skilled from their earliest youth in the use of the lasso and bolas.

  Ponce de Leon | William Pilling