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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A striking-weapon, such as a club.
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“One blow from this formidable weapon -- which is called "patu" -- is sufficient to scatter the brains of the person struck.”
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
“In fact we learned that in the New Zealand, or Aotearoa culture, there is a carved wooden weapon known as a patu, used in hand to hand combat.”
“He did, however, think it strange for this young, uninvited guest to be swathed in a blanket-like shawl, or "patu," given the sweltering summer heat.”
“To give more attention to "just" aesthetic concerns would be to "endorse precisely the concept of the eighteenth-century curiosity cabinet, in which Assyrian shards, tropical seashells, a piece of Olmec jade, geodes, netsuke, an Attic oil lamp, bird of paradise feathers, and a Maori patu might lay side by side in indifferent splendour.”
“Labels: i-710, nick patu, President Barack Obama, wendy greuel”
“My ancestors were skill warriors, trained at the arts of taiaha, patu and many other arts.”
““If you ask people, many will just tell you ‘go ask that guy — I think he was born when I was’,” explains Sami, who sits on the TV couch huddled against the cold in his patu -- a thick blanketlike shawl that men wrap over their heads and shoulders.”
“As small clouds of green dust filled the air, Noel asked me if I had ever tried patu.”
“The other two were known as hoki patu, stick coca, and wehki patu, coca of the tapir.”
“But like most mestizo traders and rubber tappers of the Vaupés, he had adopted native ways, including the use of coca, or patu as he called it in Cubeo.”
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