rabbit stick

noun

A curved stick similar to a boomerang, used by the Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni to hunt rabbits, prairie dogs, and coyotes.

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Meanings

nounrabbit stick (plural rabbit sticks)

plural rabbit sticks

  1. A curved stick similar to a boomerang, used by the Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni to hunt rabbits, prairie dogs, and coyotes.

    The Zuñi rabbit stick (kleane) is colored black and carmine, the war god’s colors.

    1918, American Anthropologist (American Ethnological Society, Anthropological Society of Washington), volume 20, (January–March)

    Synonyms: kleane, throwing club, throwing stick

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA curved stick similar to a boomerang, used by the Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni to hunt rabbits, prairie dogs, and coyotes.

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kleanethrowing clubthrowing stick
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