单词 | macana |
释义 | ‖ macana S. Amer.|məˈkɑːnə| [Said by Humboldt to be Haitian.] An ironwood club.
1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea §27 (1847) 98 Their armes for the warre, which is a sword of heavie blacke wood... They [the Indians of Brazil] call it macana, and it is carved and wrought with inlayd works very curiously, but his edges are blunt. Ibid. §41. 147 Their [the islanders of Mocha, Chile] weapons are bowes and arrowes and macanas. 1822Sara Coleridge tr. Dobrizhoffer's Hist. Abipones [Paraguay] II. 360 The wooden club, macana. 1861W. Bollaert tr. P. Simon's Exped. Aguirre (Hakl. Soc.) xix. 79 Darts and macanas (a sort of club). [The reference is to Peru.] |

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