pun|gi stake

pun|gi stake
pun|gi stick or pun|gi stake «PUHN jee»,
a sharpened bamboo stick two or three feet high and often dipped in dung to infect the tip, stuck into the ground at an angle so as to puncture the foot of an enemy soldier. Also, punji stick or stake.
[< Annamese pungi]

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