The materials necessary for the cross-shaped boomerang are one piece hard maple 5/16 in.
The materials necessary for the T-shaped boomerang are: One piece of hard maple 5/16 in.
A boomerang can be made [Illustration: Bending and Cutting the Wood] of a piece of well seasoned hickory plank.
The [Illustration: Details of Three Boomerangs] boomerang is a curved stick of hardwood, Fig.
If thrown down on the ground the boomerang rebounds in a straight line, pursuing a ricochet motion until the object is struck at which it was thrown.
A boomerang club will help to fill in between and also furnishes good exercise for the muscles of the arm.
Boomerangs and How to Make Them [202] A boomerang is a weapon invented and used by the native Australians, who seemed to have the least intelligence of any race of mankind.
He found that the throws could be placed in two classes, one in which the boomerang was held when thrown in a plane perpendicular to the horizon, the other in which one plane of the boomerang was inclined to the left of the thrower.
He had a trial made by several natives, one of them a boomerang thrower of great skill.
The boomerang of course was all this time revolving rapidly.
This was not attempted, as it was decided the boomerang was not strong enough.
I observed that the spectators stood about a hundred yards on one side of the thrower, and when the boomerang in its gyrations approached us, every black fellow had his eyes sharply fixed on it.
Another method of throwing was mentioned; namely, to throw the boomerang in such a manner that it would strike the ground with its flat side some distance in front of the thrower.
He said that even the smartest whites had been obliged to confess that they could not learn the trick of the boomerang in perfection; that it had possibilities which they could not master.
It is contended--and may be said to be conceded--that the boomerang was known to certain savage tribes in Europe in Roman times.
He told me some wonderful things--some almost incredible things--which he had seen the blacks do with the boomerang and the weet-weet.
One of two things either some one with is then apparent: a boomerang arrived in Australia in the days of antiquity before European knowledge of the thing had been lost, or the Australian aboriginal reinvented it.
A very favourite weapon of the Madura country is a kind of curved throwing-stick, having a general likeness to the boomerang of the Australian aborigines.
Bruce Foote, I am indebted for the following note on the use of the boomerang in the Madura district.
The interpreter explained to us that the return-boomerang was more of a toy than a weapon, as the regular boomerang cannot return when it has hit something in its course.
In order to return to the place whence it started, the boomerang must not encounter or even touch anything in its way.
The performer with the boomerang was evidently very well satisfied with his morning's work, and he was certainly very liberally paid for his performances.
I ought to mention that each time when he threw the boomerang he varied his manner of throwing it.
It is probable that the idea of the boomerang may have been taken from the motions of a falling leaf, and especially a leaf of the gum tree.
Ned and Harry tried to learn from the performer when and by whom the boomerang was invented, and all they could get from him was, "Long time ago; who knows?
From all accounts that I am able to obtain, the boomerang as a weapon in the hands of a good thrower is very dangerous.
The piece of wood that forms the boomerang is about half an inch thick, and in the middle it is two and one half inches wide, narrowing steadily towards the end.
While they were getting ready for their performance the interpreter explained that the boomerang was a great deal of a mystery.
Mr. Syme tells us that when the aboriginals used to hunt the kangaroos, they killed them with the boomerangor the spear.
Mr. Jackson helped them, and Eradicate and his mule Boomerang were called on occasionally when boxes or crates were to be taken to the railroad station.
Send Eradicate Tell him to run--not to wait for his mule--Boomerang is too slow.
So ef Massa Swift doan't git well, den I an' Boomerang parts!
He stood at the door of his house, and the boomerang went clear around the house.
While he hesitated the door opened again, something more than six inches, and Boomerang squeezed through.
He swung off the trail to ride around the building in search of a shelter of some kind, catching sight of Boomerang just disappearing through the door of the bar-room.
Boomerang was errand boy just now, useful man about the hotel or one of the saloons when necessity drove, at other times just plain bum.
Boomerang gazed after the departing Englishman and blinked rapidly at the bill in his hand.
Den I left Boomerang an' mah wagon at de foot ob de hill an' I come up heah t' git a long pole t' pry de log outer de way.
I knowed I could leave Boomerang safe, 'case he's asleep.
Mah ole mule Boomerang am good enough fo' me," and, shaking his head in a woeful manner, Eradicate went on his way.
But it was the boomerang of Baldabella which, after complicated and mysterious evolutions, struck and stunned a large animal, which Wilkins presently despatched with his knife.
She could throw a boomerangor spear better than any of them; her sympathy was excited for Wilkins, who had always been her protector; and her knowledge of the habits and the language of the people might make her very useful to them.
Turkish advanced work in the Saghir Dere, known as the Boomerang Redoubt, was assaulted.
The dreaded Boomerang collapsed and was stormed with hardly a casualty.
That's true," said Frank, "but at the same time such an attack might prove a boomerang to the Germans.
That's why I say submarine activities off the American coast will prove a boomerang to the foe.
Followed by the shuffling and chuckling negro, Tom and Ned went to the rather insecure stable where the mule Boomerangwas kept.
We sweeps on to Boot Hill, makin' a deemoniac finish, oldBoomerang leadin' by the len'th of the hearse.
The Turner person has hooked up old Boomerang to the hearse, so as to confer on this his first fooneral all the style he can.
The load begins to tell at last, though, an' inch by inch Toobercloses starts to nose Boomerang out.
The big drawback is that thar ain't no quadrooped anywhar about to race Boomerang ag'inst.
Enright gives the signal an', with Boomerang an' the hearse at the head, the procession lines out at a seedate walk for the grave.
Whatever the valyoo of this as a theery, thar comes a moment, about a mile from Boot Hill, when, as sudden as the crack of a rifle, away goes Boomerang with the rush of a norther.
From standp'ints of weight pore old Boomerang ain't gettin' a squar' deal.
The first officer has seen a man try to escape from his enemy by getting behind a tree; but the enemy sent his boomerang sailing into the sky far above and beyond the tree; then it turned, descended, and killed the man.
This being received with a large silence that suggested doubt, he buttressed it with the statement that his brother once saw the boomerang kill a bird away off a hundred yards and bring it to the thrower.
We have come far from the snake liar and the fish liar, and there was rest and peace in the thought; but now we have reached the realm of the boomerang liar, and sorrow is with us once more.
The talk passed from the boomerang to dreams--usually a fruitful subject, afloat or ashore--but this time the output was poor.
Thrown into the air, certain kinds ofboomerang have a secondary movement of gyration and return to the foot of the thrower, as a hoop returns to the child when he throws it before him, having given it first a rotatory motion.
The boomerang we have already introduced to our readers, and some of the other contraptions we shall now proceed to explain.
He told us that one of these savages would seize his boomerangand send it whirling into a flock of parrots, bringing down half a dozen of the birds, and then return to his feet.
He then borrowed a book and a lead pencil, and placed the miniature boomerang on the former, with one end projecting over the edge of the book about an inch.
This dual-purpose weapon is merely a boomerang to one of the ends of which is fitted a spur, which engages the socket in the butt of the spear.
Spears and boomerangs were thrown viciously and dodged and evaded skilfully until one of the men found a boomerang sticking fast in his leg.
Far up in a recess of this cavity a toy boomerang was found, placed there by some provident but forgetful piccaninny.
On one of the islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria the boomerang (I am told) alone is used, the blacks being so expert that little is left to chance.
Men armed with spears surround and exterminate a shoal detected in shallow water; and the boomerang and the nulla-nulla as well as the spear form the weapons of the solitary fisherman.
Each warrior was challenged individually, and when none responded he railed against all for cowards and sent the boomerang hissing defiance against the blue sky, to fall with mutter and thud at his feet.
Further north it is so almost universally, a combination of boomerang and wommera being the most popular form.
One of two things is then apparent: either some one with a boomerang arrived in Australia in the days of antiquity before European knowledge of the thing had been lost, or the Australian aboriginal reinvented it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boomerang" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
