Weapon vs Greenstone - What's the difference?
weapon | greenstone |
An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.
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, title= An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 15, author=Phil Dawkes, work=BBC
, title= (archaeology) any of several green-hued minerals used for making various artefacts in early Mesoamerican cultures, e.g. greenschist, chlorastrolite, serpentine, omphacite, or chrysoprase
(New Zealand) the green-hued minerals of New Zealand used by M?ori to make tools, ornaments and weapons (any of three varieties of nephrite jade or one variety of bowenite)
(Bowenite)
As a noun weapon
is an instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, eg most guns, missiles, or swords.As a proper noun greenstone is
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(en noun)Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
Stoke 2-0 Bolton, passage=Rory Delap's long throw-ins are a familiar weapon to the Potters' opponents but this does not make them any easier to defend against.}}