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punji sticks

n. (punji stick English)

Usage examples of "punji sticks".

Two of his men had run feces-smeared punji sticks through their feet, and one of them had suffered a smashed upper right arm (he was lucky he wasn't squashed like a bug) when he tripped a wire and released an eight-foot section of tree trunk imbedded with more feces smeared pointed sticks.

The illicit proprietors of such enterprises were known to use guns connected to trip-wires, or covered pits filled with punji sticks.

That meant missions: the fearful plunge into the jungle, the choking terror that you would make a mis-step and end up without your legs or be impaled on Punji sticks —.

That meant missions: the fearful plunge into the jungle, the choking terror that you would make a mis-step and end up without your legs or be impaled on Punji sticks - fire-hardened bamboo spikes dark with a venom that would paralyze your central nervous system.