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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 thrower
Familiarity information: THROW STICK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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