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Answer for the clue "Indian stick used as a weapon ", 5 letters:
lathi

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Lathi assembly constituency is one of the 182 assembly constituency of Gujarat. It is located in Amreli District .

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n. club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron; used by police in India [syn: lathee ]

Usage examples of lathi.

The policeman walked cautiously forward, his lantern raised in one hand and his lathi tightly grasped in the other.

Upen-dranath Banerjee, who hardly believed in the possibility of such occult phenomena, had gone to the terrace with a lantern and a lathi to find the culprit.

Helen turned, relieved to see the wiry figure of her Sunyassi standing at the door of the temple, a stout lathi in his hand.

Therein walk only daemons and mad things that are no longer men, and the streets are white with the unburied bones of those who have looked upon the eidolon Lathi, that reigns over the city.

But, ten minutes after the smiling Lathi Tal had vanished, like a thunderbolt upon the heads of Van Houten and Groot descended the purport of a document which that confidential person must have accidentally dropped in their shop.