honda
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of honda
1885–90, < Spanish: sling < Latin funda, perhaps akin to Greek sphendónē
Example Sentences
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In Europe a Financial Times report comparing cars on the basis of pollutants found a quantum leap of cleanliness from the euro high mileage cars to the honda and toyota hybrids.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2010
I once used a linen rope with weighted honda that was soft and threw well.
From Camp and Trail by Stewart Edward White
It was at this gait that he passed me; my rope-hand flew forward; the honda, well down, held the noose open, and the beautiful bay fairly ran his head into it.
From The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Those bought at stores have a metal knot or honda through which the slipnoose runs; but cowboys and Boy Scouts do not need this.
From Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
But our conductor simply threw the stones, whereas the goat-herd uses the aloe-fibre honda, or sling, that one sees hanging by dozens in the Mexican shops.
From Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern by Edward Burnett Tylor
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