单词 | throwing iron |
释义 | > as lemmasthrowing iron throwing iron n. a throwing weapon having a projecting metal blade or point, formerly used in various cultures in central Africa; (now also) = throwing star n. [Originally (with reference to Africa) after German Wurfeisen (1879 in this sense in the work reviewed in quot. 1880; 15th cent. in more general use).] ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > knife-like missile throwing iron1880 1880 Nature 1 Jan. 199/1 Each of the performers..seizes his spear and throwing-iron (a curious boomerang-like weapon with a long protecting prong on the concave margin). 1898 A. J. Butler tr. F. Ratzel Hist. Mankind III. 71 The indispensable weapon was the throwing-iron, of which many carried several specimens,..in sheaths of hide. 1987 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 28 286 Spears and throwing irons were kept for close quarters. 2009 Chronicle (Toowoomba, Queensland) (Nexis) 17 July 3 Chinese throwing irons and other martial arts-style weapons had been seized by police. < as lemmas |
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