| 单词 | throwing balls |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthrowing balls throwing balls n. a weapon used as a missile consisting of two or more balls or stones connected by strong cord; = bolas n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > other devices wile1677 bolas1843 throwing balls1882 killer1892 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > bolas bolas1843 throwing balls1882 1882 C. T. Gatty Catal. Mayer Mus. Pt. II: Prehist. Antiq. & Ethnogr. 17/2 Bolas, or throwing balls, of walrus-ivory, attached to strings of animal fibre with feathers at the end, for throwing and entangling birds. 1910 Harper's Mag. June 60/2 Through the long Patagonian winter the shepherds and gauchoes busy themselves making..bolas (throwing-balls). 2001 D. Bonnette Origin Human Species xiv. 135 In 1956, G. H. R. von Koenigswald reported finding extremely primitive throwing balls, or bolas, in Olduvai Gorge's Bed I. < as lemmas |
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