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THROW STICK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does throw stick mean? 

THROW STICK (noun)
  The noun THROW STICK has 1 sense:

1. a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to throwerplay

  Familiarity information: THROW STICK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


THROW STICK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

boomerang; throw stick; throwing stick

Hypernyms ("throw stick" is a kind of...):

missile; projectile (a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled)

Domain region:

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "throw stick"):

kiley; kylie (an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex)


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