Crossword clues for woomera
woomera
Wiktionary
n. (context Australia English) An Australian spearthrower consisting of a stick with a hooked end.
Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ Woomera refers to Woomera (spear-thrower), an Indigenous Australian spear-throwing tool; other uses include:
A woomera is a wooden Australian Aboriginal spear-throwing device. Similar to an atlatl, it is an extension of the human arm that enables a spear to travel at a greater speed and force than possible with the unaided arm. The town of Woomera in South Australia, founded in 1947 as the home of the Anglo-Australian Long Range Weapons Establishment, is named after the spear thrower.
Usage examples of "woomera".
Later he led one of the first British teams to shoot down target aircraft with remote-controlled missiles, and spent two years at Woomera Rocket Range in Australia.
The resulting burst of gamma radiation produced an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, that blew out every telephone, vid-screen, transformer, and electric sheep-shearer from Woomera to Sydney, and caused the sewage system in Melbourne to run backward.