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单词 woomera
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woomera1

/ˈwuːm(ə)rə /
noun Australian
An Aboriginal stick used to throw a spear more forcibly.His sketches often portrayed the ‘natives’ fishing and throwing spears with woomeras....
  • The men on the left are holding shields, spears and woomeras while the man on the right has a huge wooden sword as well as a shield.
  • Long, long time ago, two little nephews asked their old uncle to take them out and camp on the river so that he could teach them how to make their spears and woomeras and their boomerangs.

Origin

Early 19th century: from Dharuk wamara.

Woomera2

/ˈwuːm(ə)rə /
A town in central South Australia, the site of a vast military testing ground used in the 1950s for nuclear tests and since the 1960s for tracking space satellites.
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