throwing stick

throwing stick

n

(Military / Arms & Armour (excluding Firearms)) a primitive device for hurling a spear with greater leverage, consisting of a rod with a groove in it and a hook or projection at the back end to hold the weapon until its release

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	throwing stick - a device resembling a sling that is used in various primitive societies to propel a dart or spear dart thrower, spear thrower, throwing board device - an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water"
	2.	throwing stick - a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower boomerang, throw stick kiley, kylie - an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex projectile, missile - a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled Australia, Commonwealth of Australia - a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony