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throwing stick

noun

  1. a short, straight or curved stick, flat or cylindrical in form, often having a hand grip, and used generally in preliterate societies as a hunting weapon to throw at birds and small game.
  2. Australian. a boomerang.


throwing stick

noun

  1. a primitive device for hurling a spear with greater leverage, consisting of a rod with a groove in it and a hook or projection at the back end to hold the weapon until its release
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of throwing stick1

First recorded in 1760–70
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Example Sentences

Spears and a double-pointed throwing stick were found lying between animal bones about ten meters below the surface in deposits at a former lakeshore.

Twenty were related to hunting, including more spears but also finely balanced throwing sticks for downing small game or birds.

Rough wooden spears and throwing sticks attributed to H. heidelbergensis were found in the 1990s in northern Germany.

She would make spears, throwing sticks, a bow and arrows, a sling.

He loved throwing sticks as far as he could while walking around his family’s wheat and rice farm.

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