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nal-nal

nal-nal noun: a traditional warclub of the people of Tanna, Vanuatu.

Noun

nal-nal (plural nal-nals)

  1. A traditional warclub of the people of Tanna, Vanuatu.
    • Born in 1905, he recounts that his own grandfather was a warrior, fighting with arrows made out of bone, the kasowaso (a deadly hurling stone), and the nal-nal (bludgeon).2014, William F. S. Miles, Scars of Partition: Postcolonial Legacies in French and British Borderlands

Forms of nal-nal

pluralnal-nals

Questions about nal-nal

What does nal-nal mean?
Nal-nal means a traditional warclub of the people of Tanna, Vanuatu.
What part of speech is nal-nal?
Nal-nal is a noun.
What is the plural of nal-nal?
The plural of nal-nal is nal-nals.

Words near nal-nal in the dictionary

  1. Nakula
  2. Nakuru
  3. Nal Bino
  4. Nal'chik
  5. nal-
  6. nal-nal
  7. nal-nals
  8. nala
  9. Nala Sopara
  10. Nalaikh
  11. Nalanda

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