wango

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wango (plural not attested)

1. (dated) A boomerang.
   • 1840-1841, Edward John Eyre, Expeditions of Discovery in South Australia:

     I once nearly had my arm broken by a wango, whilst standing within a yard of the native who threw it, and looking out purposely for it.

• “wango”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Gowan, Wagon, gowan, wagon, wonga