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    THROW STICK

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to throwerplay

    Synonyms:

    boomerang; throw stick; throwing stick

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting man-made objects

    Hypernyms ("throw stick" is a kind of...):

    missile; projectile (a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled)

    Domain region:

    Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "throw stick"):

    kiley; kylie (an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex)

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