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bolas

[ boh-luhs ]

noun

, plural bo·las [boh, -l, uh, z], bo·las·es [boh, -l, uh, -siz].
  1. (used with a singular verb) bola ( def 1 ).


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Example Sentences

The Tehuelche were innovators, too: Outsiders marveled at their bolas, weighted rope snares they swung and launched from horseback to hunt llamalike guanaco and flightless rhea birds.

Sandi defends himself against the hired hands sent to kill him, such as Ramon — a psychotic barber armed with stainless steel shears — with only a bolas as his weapon.

Butler grabbed the offending baton, swinging weapon and bearer like a set of bolas.

By night, the female bolas swings a silken line with a sticky ball at its end while emitting the scent of a female moth to lure and nab male moths.

Had the bolas come in massed, coordinated onslaughts instead of being wielded by individual soldiers as they thought opportune, Pizarro might well have met his match.

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