Naboot vs Aboot - What's the difference?
naboot | aboot |
a quarterstaff constructed of palm wood or rattan. It originated in Egypt and is used in the martial art of tahtib.
* These injuries were probably sustained in attempting to ward off the blow of the naboot . This weapon was a staff, which was grasped, by the person wielding it, in both hands. Its use was a favorite pastime of the ancient Egyptians, and resembled the old English quarterstaff play.
* , “An Hi?torical Account of the Trade Winds'' and ''Mon?oons'', ob?ervable in the Seas between and near the ''Tropicks'', with an attempt to a??ign the Phy?ical Cau?e of the ?aid Winds”, re-printed in ''Mi?cellanea Curio?a: Containing a Collection of ?ome of the Principal Phænomena in Nature, Accounted for by the Greate?t Philo?ophers of this Age; Being the Mo?t Valuable Di?courses, Read and Delivered to the Royal Society, for the Advancement of Phy?ical and Mathematical Knowledge, As al?o a Collection of Curious ''Travels'', ''Voyages'', ''Antiquities'', and ''Natural Hi?tories'' of Countries; Pre?ented to the ?ame Society , second edition, volume I,
* 1889 , , The Mystery of Cloomber , chapter 8,
* 1926 August, , “From Missouri”, re-printed in The Lawless West ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=o0brOTCrQ5oC] Dorchester Publishing (2007), ISBN 0843957875, page 12,
As a noun naboot
is a quarterstaff constructed of palm wood or rattan it originated in egypt and is used in the martial art of tahtib.As a preposition aboot is
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Noun
(wikipedia naboot) (en noun)history of medicine in its salient features" by Walter Libby
Anagrams
*aboot
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Preposition
(English prepositions)R. Smith (1708), [http://books.google.com/books?id=sb04AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA65&dq=%22aboot%22 page 65,
- The one is, why, notwith?tanding the narrowe?t part of the Sea between Guinea'' and ''Brazile'' be aboot five hundred Leagues over, yet Ships bound to the Southward, ?ometimes, e?pecially in the Months of ''July'' and ''August , find a great difficulty to pa?s it.
- Maister Fothergill West and the meenister say that I maun tell all I can aboot' General Heatherstone and his hoose, but that I maunna say muckle ' aboot mysel'.
- “Heah he reads in a Kansas City paper aboot a schoolteacher wantin’ a job out in dry Arizonie. And he ups an’ writes her an’ gets her a-rarin’ to come. Then, when she writes an’ tells us she’s not over forty , then us quits like yellow coyotes. […]”