womera
Americannoun
noun
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He is also the inventor of such simple but effective instruments as the boomerang and the womera, a slinglike device for launching spears.
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The womera, or throwing stick, which enables the natives of Port Jackson to cast their spears with such amazing force and precision, is not used by them.
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I noticed in particular that they did not make use of the boomerang, or kiley, but of the throwing stick or womera, of a larger kind, however, than any I have observed elsewhere; the head of their spears was made of stone.
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The old man's spear was not barbed, and the womera or throwing stick of the same long narrow shape as at Port Essington.
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They carry the same kind of spears, and the womera, or throwing stick, as are used by those in New South Wales.
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