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throw stick
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boomerang, throwing stick, throw sticknoun
a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower
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throw stick
The throwing stick or throwing club is a wooden rod with either a pointed tip or a spearhead attached to one end, intended for use as a weapon. A throwing stick can be either straight or roughly boomerang-shaped, and is much shorter than the javelin. It became obsolete as slings and bows became more prevalent, except on the Australian continent, where the native people continued refining the basic design. Throwing sticks shaped like returning boomerangs are designed to fly straight to a target at long ranges, their surfaces acting as airfoils. When tuned correctly they do not exhibit curved flight, but rather they fly on an extended straight flight path. Straight flight ranges greater than 100 meters have been reported by historical sources as well as in recent research.
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A throw stick is a primitive tool or weapon used by various cultures throughout history, designed to be thrown at a target. It is typically a straight or curved wooden object, sometimes with a weighted end, and can be used for hunting small game or as a weapon in combat. It is not designed to return to the thrower like a boomerang, but rather to hit and incapacitate or kill the target.
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Throw stick
The Throw stick hieroglyph of Ancient Egypt is an old hieroglyph that dates from the Predynastic Period; it is from the assemblage of hieroglyphs used on the ornamental, or ceremonial cosmetic palettes. It is used on the palettes both as a throwing-stick weapon in the animal hunt being portrayed-, as well as on certain palettes, as a determinative referring to a "foreigner", or "foreign territory". Ancient Libya, just northwestwards from Lower Egypt, and the Libyans were thought to be the first land portrayed, as well as the savannah-desert land hunters. The original predynastic throwing-stick was a launched club as seen on archaeological palettes, a predynastic stick from Gebelein-, 35 inches long, and 11 ounces, is at the Turin Museum.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of throw stick in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of throw stick in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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- וואַרפן שטעקןYiddish
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