Crossword clues for bolas
bolas
- Throwing weapons
- Gaucho's weapons
- Gaucho's entanglers
- Whirled and hurled weapons
- Weighted lassos
- Ropes with weights attached
- Latin American weapons
- Hurled entangling weapons
- Gauchos' weaponry
- Gauchos' tools
- Gauchos' instruments
- Gaucho's weaponry
- Gaucho's tools
- Entangling weapons
- Corded weapons
- Ball-on-a-rope missiles
- Ball-and-rope missiles
- Gauchos' weapons
- Whirled weapons
- Gauchos' gear
- Ball-rope missiles
- Gauchos' cow catchers
- Dogie entangler
- Rancheros' weapons
- Gaucho gear
- Gaucho's weapon or weapons
- Gaucho weapons
- Gaucho's weapon
- Weapon that's thrown
- Hurled weapons
- Gaucho's cattle-catcher
- Pampas weapons
- Gauchos' lariats
- Weapons with weights attached
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bolas \Bo"las\, n. sing. & pl. [Sp.] A kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two, or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather cord; -- used by the Gauchos of South America, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal.
Wiktionary
n. A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of interconnected cords, designed to capture animals by entangle their legs.
Wikipedia
A bolas (plural: bolas or bolases; from Spanish bola, "ball", also known as boleadoras) is a type of throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of interconnected cords, used to capture animals by entangling their legs. Bolas were most famously used by the gauchos ( Argentinian cowboys), but have been found in excavations of Pre-Columbian settlements, especially in Patagonia, where indigenous peoples (particularly the Tehuelche) used them to catch 200-pound guanaco (llama-like mammals) and ñandú (birds). The Mapuche and the Inca army used them in battle. Researchers have also found bolas in North America at the Calico Early Man Site.
Bolas may refer to:
- Bolas, a throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of interconnected cord
- Bolas spiders, a spider family
- Niko Bolas, American music producer
- Mark Bolas, virtual reality researcher
- Nicol Bolas, a planeswalker in Magic the Gathering
Usage examples of "bolas".
Although the women had brought their bolas, none had any real weapons with them.
Arming her bola, and commanding those who had bolas of their own to do the same, Lonit drew in a deep, steadying breath.
Use the bolas to tie yourselves together so no one will be swept away!
The women and girls got close enough to brain a few small birds with stones loosed from their bolas, and three times in as many days the men of the band speared larger quarry, and the heartened people shared the meat of eagles and a teratorn.
In a moment spears would fly, bolas would whir, the beasts would fall dead, and everything would be all right again.
Tertiary bed yielded dressed and polished stones, bolas and boladeras, identical with those used as missiles by the Indians.
The bolas were firmly in place in the very hard terrain that enclosed them, and there was no sign of there having been any disturbance of the earth that covered them.
Stone balls of this type, known to them as bolas, are still used by native hunters in South America.
The objects reported by von Koenigswald, if used in the same manner as South American bolas, imply that their makers were adept not only at stone-working but leatherworking as well.
The bolas of Miramar are significant in that they point to the existence of human beings of a high level of culture during the Pliocene, and perhaps even earlier, in South America.
To his right Lawrence was running towards the sayce, his bolas whirling frantically.
The boy let the bolas fly, yelling with adrenalin intoxication, and it caught the sayce on its forelegs, stones twisting in ever-shorter arcs with incredible speed.