leanglen.
/lɪˈaŋɡ(ə)l/, U.S. /liˈæŋɡ(ə)l/, Australian English /liˈæŋɡ(ə)l/ Australian.
A wooden club bent at the striking end. (Morris Austral Eng.)
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun]
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1845 C. Griffith Present State Port Philip x. 155 The liangle is..of the shape of a pickaxe, with only one pick.
1867 G. G. MacCrae Māmba 9 The long leangle's nascent form Forespoke the distant battle-storm.
1869 Hoare Figures of Fancy 98 Beneath the dread leeangle blow Fell many a strong and swarthy foe.
1894 R. Etheridge in Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 13 317 On a Modification of the Australian Aboriginal Weapon, termed the Leonile, Langeel, Bendi, or Buccan, &c.
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. xiii. 224 Those aboriginal words we have incorporated in our language... For example:..wurley, leangle, mulga, [etc.].
1966 W. S. Ramson Austral. Eng. vi. 132 Leangle, ‘a club’, and wirri, ‘a throwing stick’, are Victorian, both coming from the Gippsland area.
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