NOUN
- a device resembling a sling that is used in various primitive societies to propel a dart or spear
- a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower
How To Use throwing stick In A Sentence
- In Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "The Harvesters" 1565, from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, tiny background figures can be seen throwing sticks at a tied-up goose in a game called squail. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
- Instead, the weasel is reaching out a forepaw toward her, and she is dropping her throwing stick and taking its paw. NEVERWHERE
- Often, there'd be the added distraction of other gangs of local layabouts throwing sticks and stones at you an your way through.
- More sophisticated weapons like throwing sticks and bows and arrows came only after a further long period of brain development.
- Instead, the weasel is reaching out a forepaw toward her, and she is dropping her throwing stick and taking its paw. NEVERWHERE
- They carry the same kind of spears, and the womera, or throwing stick, as are used by those in New The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829
- Often, there'd be the added distraction of other gangs of local layabouts throwing sticks and stones at you an your way through.
- rioters running amuck and throwing sticks and bottles and stones
- Was in Port Sudan lately and bought a nice old Beja throwing stick, some kaskara, a shield, jambiya and a staff or knobkerrie. Sudanese Throwing Sticks
- Throwing sticks of dynamite and rocks, the demonstrators have confronted riot police using tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon.
