punji
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editFrom Jingpho [Term?].
Noun
editpunji (plural punjis)
- A sharpened stick, often made of bamboo and covered in feces or other biohazardous material, set in the ground to wound or impale enemy soldiers.
- 2013, Gordon L. Rottman, World War II Allied Sabotage Devices and Booby Traps, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 19:
- Ordinary punjis will penetrate thick uniforms or the upper part of a shoe.
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edit- Punji stick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia