spear-thrower

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Wiggoon
English JS Main: 
spear-thrower
English: 
throwing stick, having a rounded wooden end instead of a shell
Category: 
weapons and parts
Sub-category: 
spear-thrower
Source: 
Smith & Wheeler
Page: 
59
Line: 
52.1
Respelt: 
wigun
Part of speech: 
noun
Meaning Clue: 
‘Wig-goon’ wigun = ‘Throwing stick without the shell’: Anon [c:8:2] [BB]
Source Details: 
Smith, Bernard and Wheeler, Alwyne, 1988. The Art of the First Fleet & other early Australian Drawings. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, New Haven amd London, in association with the Australian Academy for the Humanitioes and the British Museum (Natural History). 256 pp. -------------
Comment: 
Watling 78