(in SE Asia) a sharpened bamboo stake, sometimes tipped with poison, hidden at the bottom of a camouflaged hole that forms a trap
verbWord forms: -jies, -jiing or -jied(transitive) obsolete
2.
to fortify with punji stakes
punji in American English
(ˈpʌndʒi)
noun
a sharpened, often poisoned, bamboo stake planted in a series as a barricade or planted and concealed in a hole, ditch, etc. as to cut or impale an enemy