"thunderstick" meaning in English

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          "text": "The man pointed his thunderstick at the buffalo, and with a great noise and fire, the buffalo fell down dead.",
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          "ref": "1904, W.A. Fraser, “The Narrative of Buffalo and Bison”, in Metropolitan, volume 20, number 11, pages 195–196:",
          "text": "...the Men, when they hunt us with their arrows or a thunder-stick which strikes with a loud noise...",
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          "ref": "1931 He Dog, interviewed by Mari Sandoz (John Colhoff, interpreter), in The Beaver Men: Spearheads of Empire (University of Nebraska Press, 1964)",
          "text": "Two men with beards... carrying thundersticks... were in the village above..."
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          "ref": "1938, Mark Raymond Harrington, The Indians of New Jersey: Dickon among the Lenapes:",
          "text": "We have heard that they have magic thunder sticks; that all they need do is point the stick at a man and thunder and lightning comes out of it and the man dies.",
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          "text": "...the captain of the vessel ordered a crew member to fire the thunderstick, as ancestors called the gun.\nWord of bearded White men and their thundersticks was carried inland to other Indians.",
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          "text": "Called “James Tenney and Milton Babbitt : American Iconoclasts,” the mini-festival begins on Saturday with a work by Mr. Tenney, who died in 2006, on a program including pieces by Larry Polansky, Michael Byron and Henry Cowell (the 1925 “Ensemble” for string quartet and thundersticks). Mr. Babbitt is honored on Sunday with a program that includes, among other works, a premiere by Christopher Buchenholz.",
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