Noun:

ಉಮೇರಾ,

woomera's Usage Examples:

Some woomeras, especially those used in the central and western.

These included the usual spears, boomerangs, woomeras, digging sticks, stone knives and everyday objects, but also tjurungas.

a good hardwood for making various implements, such as digging sticks, woomeras, shields and wooden bowls.

group advanced to about 30 yards and were shipping their spears into their woomeras and were poised to throw, Dalrymple reporting that the "sniders opened.

Aboriginal peoples would scoop out the sand or mud using a coolamon or woomera, often to a depth of several.

The wood was used in making spears for woomeras in the Central and Western deserts.

spear-throwers (or the Mayan word hul"che); in Australia, the Dharug word woomera is used instead.

traditionally used by Aboriginal Australians in Central Australia for making woomeras and coolamons.

A woomera is a wooden Australian Aboriginal spear-throwing device.

woomera, and atlatl extended that range even further by giving the hunter leverage to throw the spear faster and farther.

[citation needed] The Aboriginal men gathered up their spears and woomeras, as the women and children fled towards the river, where Stirling, Meares.

Holocene, Aboriginal people in Australia developed spear-throwers, known as woomeras.

[citation needed] Like spears and boomerangs, woomeras were traditionally used only by men.