An Aboriginal throwing weapon consisting of a flexible handle with a wooden or bone knob at the end.
he was astounded by their skill in throwing the boomerang and the weet-weet
Example sentencesExamples
- Before I saw Australia I had never heard of the weet-weet at all.
- The distance to which the weet-weet can be thrown is truly astonishing.
- He instanced their invention of the boomerang and the weet-weet as evidences of their brightness.
- They are taught how to throw bundies, boomerangs and weet-weets.
- I had made enquiries respecting the weet-weet, and had asked one of the Aborigines to make me one.