hornerah

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


aboriginal name for a throwing-stick;a dialectic variation of Woomera (q.v.). a nonce-use.

1830. R. Dawson, `Present State of Australia,' p. 20:

«I observed, too, that they used a stick, shaped thus __, called the hornerah (which assists them in throwing thespear).»