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- Primary term
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punji stake
- URI
- https://nomenclature.info/nom/14987 (opens semantic view)
- Definition
- A weapon consisting of a spike, made out of wood or bamboo, which is sharpened and heated at one end. Planted upward-facing in clusters at the bottom of a ground pit and usually concealed, used as a booby trap to injure soldiers at time of war.
- Definition source(s)
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- American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), and Canadian Heritage Information Network / Réseau canadien d’information sur le patrimoine. 2018. “Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging / Nomenclature pour le catalogage des objets de musée.” September 1, 2018. https://www.nomenclature.info/.
- English
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- Term (International)
- punji stake
- Inverted term (International)
- stake, punji
- Alternative term(s)
- Punji stick
- French
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- Term (International)
- pointe dite punji
- Term gender (International)
- feminine
- Date created
- 2020-09-18
- Date updated
- 2022-01-26
- Bibliographic citation(s)
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- Benjamin. 2019. “Les tunnels de Cu Chi : secrets d’un monde souterrain.” Le Blog de Carnets d’Asie (blog). April 8, 2019. https://blog.carnetsdasie.com/les-tunnels-de-cu-chi/.
- Mantoux, Stéphane. 2012. “Les « morts vivants » à Cam Ne. Le premier « Zippo raid » de la guerre du Viêt-nam.” Revue historique des armées, no. 268 (September): 79–87. http://journals.openedition.org/rha/7521.
- Wikipedia. n.d. “Dispositif piège.” Wikipédia. Accessed June 28, 2019. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispositif_pi%C3%A8ge.
- Wikipedia. n.d. “Punji Stick.” Wikipedia. Accessed June 28, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punji_stick.
- Wikipedia. n.d. “Trou de loup.” Wikipédia. Accessed September 18, 2020. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trou_de_loup.
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