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fire sticknoun1A flaming baton used in juggling: there were people walking on stilts and juggling with fire sticks...- As they juggle pins and fire sticks, do cartwheels and backflips energetically, the kids look less desperate than exhausted by their routine.
- I missed the workshops on hitchhiking and do-it-yourself event production, and I may not have another chance to learn how to twirl fire sticks.
- Performance artists include stilt walkers and fire-stick throwers, with dancers and drummers attracting crowds from miles around.
2Australian A smouldering stick carried for use in lighting fires, especially by Aborigines: he put some grass under the wood and applied the fire stick to it...- The agricultural contractor was the fella with the fire stick and as he explains there was both reason and planning to his actions.
- In this work, rendered in natural ochres and pigments, she shows the monthly ritual of burning a fire stick and holding it up to the new moon.
- We use the branches to make our woomeras, and some of the straight branches for fire sticks and spears.
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