Austral. Forms: wom(m)erah, womrah, wom(m)-, wummera, wommeira, womerar, wo-, wamara, woom-, wammera, wommora, -ala. [Native name, given as womar, womerra, wommerru, etc., in various vocabularies.] A throwing-stick used by Australian aboriginals. = THROWING-STICK a. Also = next.
1817. Oxley, Jrnls. Two Exped. N. S. Wales (1820), 117. He [sc. the native] was quite naked, except the netted band round the waist, in which were womerahs.
1835. J. Batman, in Cornwallis, New World (1859), I. App. 407. We … encountered six men, armed with spears fixed in their wommeras.
1845. J. O. Balfour, Sk. N. S. Wales, 17. A whamera whizzed past where I was standing, and with unerring aim struck Fighting Jemmy on the arm.
1907. Firth Scott, in Macm. Mag., Oct., 935. He, in the strength of his manhood, and with the aid of a favourite womerah, could send a long spear, tipped with palm-wood, through a deal plank an inch thick a hundred yards away.
