Bolas
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Bolas
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.
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bolas
A weapon of war and the chase, consisting of two or three balls of stone or metal attached to the ends of strong lines, which are knotted together, used by the Gauchos and Indians of western and southern South America. It is used by throwing it in such a way that the line winds around the object aimed at, as the legs of an animal. A smaller weapon of the same sort is in use among the Eskimos for killing birds.
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Bolas
bō′las missiles used by the South American gauchos, consisting of balls or stones strung together, swung round the head and hurled, usually so as to entangle the legs of an animal running.
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Skating Ernestos and Rolla Bola . lasvegassun.com
Bola ño in Mexico The Nation. thenation.com
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Would you prefer a Frisbee or a bola. timesleader.com
After Bola's gusts dumped the Frost's export order of blueberries on the ground, they turned to a 10-litre paint bucket, a potato masher and a library book to guide them to the saving grace of the season. mailto:ana.samways@nzherald.co.nz
"Cancha de bolas" or the bowling alley. sdreader.com
Bola Olaniyan other-excused will miss the entire season. fox16.com
If you're looking for a scorpion bola tie, you've come to the wrong place. tucsonweekly.com
Their second release, Bola's Volume 7, is out this month, and it's a vibrant, living testament to Ghanaian roots music in a digital age. blog.kexp.org
In [BoLa] Boissy and Lanneau related linear involutions to quadratic differentials, whose moduli space is the co-tangent bundle of the moduli space of complex curves, that is the natural setting for an extension of Masur’s logarithmic law.
Khinchin theorem for interval exchange transformations
We believe that the techniques introduced in this paper can be extended to linear involutions and we ask if a generalization of Theorem 1.3 can be proved for them (more precisely for the subclass of linear involutions which are relevant for quadratic differentials, as it is explained in [BoLa]).
Khinchin theorem for interval exchange transformations
Billingsley: ”Probability and measure”, Wiley series in probability and mathematical statistics (1979). [BoLa] C.
Khinchin theorem for interval exchange transformations
It is more easily caught by the bolas than the other species. "A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World" by
Sulivan for the purpose of seeing his gauchos use the lasso and bolas in catching some cattle required for the ship. "Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Vol. 2 (of 2)" by
He is hunted on the Pampas by dogs, and the Indians secure him with the bolas or the lasso. "Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals" by
The other animals were started incidentally, and killed by the hunters either with their bolas, or guns, with which a few of them were armed. "The Hunters' Feast" by
They are wonderful riders and excel in the use of a peculiar lasso called the bolas. "Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania" by
It then becomes so sluggish, that they can without difficulty throw their bolas round its neck and legs. "The Western World" by
He had been swinging the bolas around his head for more than forty years! "The Forest Exiles" by
He had been swinging the bolas around his head for more than forty years! "Popular Adventure Tales" by
The Indians and Persians have their bangue, the Egyptians their bola, and the Turks their opium. "Ebrietatis Encomium" by
Their only weapons are knives and bolas, the latter of which they throw with a surprising accuracy of aim. "Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century" by