woomera

[woom-er-uh]

noun

1. a notched stick used by Australian Aboriginal peoples to propel spears or darts.

Woomera

¹

/ ˈwʊmərə /

noun

1. a town in South Australia: site of the Long Range Weapons Establishment. Pop: 602 (2001)

woomera

²

/ ˈwʊmərə /

noun

1. a type of notched stick used by native Australians to increase leverage and propulsion in the throwing of a spear

Word History and Origins

Origin of woomera¹

First recorded in 1810–20, woomera is from the Dharuk word wu-ma-ra

Word History and Origins

Origin of woomera¹

from a native Australian language

Example Sentences

Until now, the only British satellite-bearing rocket was launched from Woomera in Australia in 1971.

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The launch site then was a military rocket range near Woomera in South Australia state.

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High Down was the test site for the Black Arrow rocket, the first - and so far only - British-made rocket to successfully deliver a satellite into Earth's orbit, launching from Woomera in Australia on 28 October, 1971.

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A landing capsule from Japan's autonomous Hayabusa2 spacecraft, carrying a cache of material gathered from asteroid Ryugu, successfully came down in South Australia's Woomera Prohibited Area.

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“Images that Hayabusa2 took during its landing operations made us confident that the spacecraft collected Ryugu samples,” wrote Satoru Nakazawa, deputy manager of the mission, in an e-mail while in Woomera, Australia.

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