spear-thrower 的定义
Anthropology.
- a flexible device for launching a spear, usually a short cord wound around the spear so that when thrown the weapon will rotate in the air.
- Also called atlatl. a rigid device for increasing the speed and distance of a spear when thrown, usually a flat wooden stick with a handhold and a peg or socket to accommodate the butt end of the spear.
更多spear-thrower例句
- In some versions of that story, the spear is the first weapon George tries.
- The earliest clear evidence of a human killed by a spear dates to roughly 100,000 years ago.
- So far as I know, no one has ever done this to an Olympic discus thrower.
- Like his predecessors, his background was as a javelin thrower.
- And, as we all know, “this ‘war on Christmas’ is the tip of the spear in a larger battle to secularize our culture.”
- This was no strange sight to the boy by that time, but it was awkward in the circumstances, for he had neither gun nor spear.
- Mafuta immediately rushed at him with a spear, but was caught by the lion on the shoulder, and dragged down.
- This last spear is propelled by a throwing-stick, which was also found lying by it.
- There they waited to spear the reindeer, while others hid behind rocks near the entrance to drive the reindeer on.
- When they worked in this way, they had no trouble in striking off flakes for spear points and knives.