| 单词 | rabbit stick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrabbit stick rabbit stick n. now chiefly historical a simple missile weapon used by various North American Indian peoples for hunting rabbits and other small game, consisting of a heavy curved or bent stick; = throwing-stick n. 2.The sense in quot. 1788 is unclear; perhaps a heavy stick used for hitting rabbits. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > boomerang rabbit stick1788 boomerang1827 Collery-stick1830 throw-stick1837 kylie1839 comeback1864 trombash1867 throwing-stick1901 1788 St. James's Chron. 18–20 Dec. The Servant..desired his Master to give him a Rabbit Stick out of the Cart. 1882 Cent. Mag. Dec. 200/2 More of the like, including quivers and bows, war-clubs, and boomerangs or ‘rabbit-sticks’. 1918 Amer. Anthropologist New Ser. 20 385 In Zuñi war god shrines..I noticed no knobbed sticks or rabbit sticks. 1958 H. C. James Red Man White Man xi. 70 Allen produced a boomerang-like stick... ‘Have you forgotten a rabbit stick? Look!’ He threw it with dexterity and killed a rabbit that Jim had not even seen. 2005 News Native Calif. 19 32 Sitting next to the cradle in that same museum case might very well be a throwing stick, or rabbit stick. < as lemmas |
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