Wiktionary
n. 1 A disc-like throwing weapon originally from India. 2 An old Indian coin.
Wikipedia
The chakram ( Devanāgarī: चक्रं; Panjabi: chakkar; ) is a throwing weapon from India. It is circular in shape with a sharpened outer edge and ranges in size from approximately in diameter. It is also known as chalikar meaning "circle", and was sometimes referred to in English writings as a "war- quoit". The chakram is primarily a throwing weapon but can also be used hand-to-hand. A smaller variant called chakri was worn on the wrist. A related weapon is the chakri dang, a bamboo staff with a chakri attached at one end.
Chakram is a Telugu drama film which released on 25 March 2005 and was written by Krishna Vamsi. Prabhas played the lead role while Asin Thottumkal, Charmme Kaur. It was also dubbed into Hindi under the same title by Manish Shah of Goldmines Telefilms.
Chakram is a 2003 Malayalam revenge film written and directed by A. K. Lohithadas, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran, Meera Jasmine, Vijeesh and Chandra Laxman.
Usage examples of "chakram".
The monastic retrieved her fallen chakram, she then sprinted back down the spiral stairs.
As he neared the tower, she reflected that she could spin a chakram down and hit him.
Sefris extracted a chakram from its pocket, charged the shed, and sprang through the doorway, hands poised to deflect a missile or blade.
She tucked the chakram away, crossed the grubby one-room shack with its few sticks of rickety furniture, and kneeled beside the slave.
She scrambled onto his chest, crushed his windpipe with a jab of her stiffened fingers, leaped up, retrieved her chakram, and ran onward.
She was just about to fling a chakram when she glimpsed movement at the edge of her vision.
A silver chakram, the traditional weapon of a Sikh warrior, adorned the foyer wall, the razor-sharp edges of the steel ring reflecting the light from the dressing room.
When they got within ten meters, the people with the chakram throwing knives had their own field day.
She found one of her chakrams, pulled it from the wound it had inflicted, wiped it clean, and stowed it away in her robe.
Her movements a fluid blur, she snatched her chakrams from her pockets and threw them one after the other.
Looking beyond his shockingly adolescent countenance, she noted unhappily that the young Sikh still had three more chakrams threaded upon his upper arm, plus a curved silver dagger thrust into his belt.
For extra assurance, he took two chakrams off his arm and used them to jam the door closed, wedging them between the door and its frame, then folding the metal rings over the edge of the jamb with his bare hands.
Guess he’s graduated from killer Frisbees, she noted acerbically, recalling Seven’s description of the deadly chakrams Khan had employed in Moscow a few years back.