2. Verb. (third-person singular of boomerang) ¹
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Definition of Boomerangs
1. boomerang [v] - See also: boomerang
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boomerangs
Literary usage of Boomerangs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1896)
"The boomerangs described in the present communication may be regarded as ...
The first five boomerangs generally resemble one of those first referred to,J ..."
2. The Native Tribes of South-east Australia by Alfred William Howitt (1904)
"boomerangs OF VICTORIAN ... some nine or ten in number, who threw so many spears
and boomerangs at him that you could not count them. ..."
3. Among Cannibals: An Account of Four Years' Travels in Australia and of Camp by Carl Lumholtz (1889)
"An acquaintance of mine told me that he once in a skirmish was hit in the thigh ;
the wound was only about an inch and a half deep, boomerangs FROM ..."
4. In Savage Isles and Settled Lands: Malaysia, Australasia and Polynesia, 1888 by Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell (1892)
"I understand that there are two distinct kinds of boomerang—one for sport or war,
which can be thrown straight at an WOOMERA AND boomerangs. object, ..."
5. The Romance of Savage Life: Describing the Life of Primitive Man, His by George Francis Scott Elliot (1908)
"... BLOWPIPES, AND boomerangs Stones and sticks—Spears—The Zulu experiment of
stabbing v. throwing spears—Throwing sticks—Slinging stones—Flint working—The ..."
6. Rips and Rapsby Lisle de Vaux Matthewman, Thomas Fleming by Lisle de Vaux Matthewman, Thomas Fleming (1903)
"... the philosophic pill the gilding as the main merit of the pill. ords are the
spears ) of the wise; the boomerangs of the foolish. w ..."
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