throwing stick

plural throwing sticks

1. A wooden tool used to throw a dart, spear or other missile; a spearthrower; (Australia) a woomera.First known use 18th c.

   On another occasion, Bungaree gave a spear and throwing stick to local people and showed them how to use them at Pumicestone River.

   2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 176

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   "What could his sling, his throwing-stick, or his arrow avail him against such forces as have been loose to-night? Even with a modern rifle it would be all odds on the monster."

   1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

2. A simple weapon consisting of a stick (often curved) that is thrown, often so that it spins in flight; an early type of boomerang.First known use 19th c.