"throwing stick" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"What could his sling, his throwing-stick, or his arrow avail him against such forces as have been loose to-night? Even with a modern rifle it would be all odds on the monster.\"",
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        },
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          "ref": "2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 176:",
          "text": "On another occasion, Bungaree gave a spear and throwing stick to local people and showed them how to use them at Pumicestone River.",
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        "A wooden tool used to throw a dart, spear or other missile; a spear thrower; (Australia) a woomera."
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        [
          "dart",
          "dart"
        ],
        [
          "spear",
          "spear"
        ],
        [
          "spear thrower",
          "spear thrower"
        ],
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          "woomera",
          "woomera"
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        "A simple weapon consisting of a stick (often curved) that is thrown, often so that it spins in flight; an early type of boomerang."
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          "stick",
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          "spin",
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          "flight",
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          "boomerang",
          "boomerang"
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          "_dis1": "36 64",
          "word": "atlatl"
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        {
          "_dis1": "36 64",
          "word": "spear thrower"
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          "_dis1": "36 64",
          "word": "throw stick"
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          "word": "woomera"
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          "_dis1": "18 82",
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          "sense": "stick that is thrown as a weapon",
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            "neuter"
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          "word": "werphout"
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    "throwing stick"
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    },
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      "word": "throw stick"
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      "word": "woomera"
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          "ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"What could his sling, his throwing-stick, or his arrow avail him against such forces as have been loose to-night? Even with a modern rifle it would be all odds on the monster.\"",
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        },
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      ],
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          "dart",
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        ],
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          "spear thrower",
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          "woomera",
          "woomera"
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          "flight",
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          "boomerang"
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      "sense": "stick that is thrown as a weapon",
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      ],
      "word": "werphout"
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    "throwing stick"
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