Also trum-. [Native name in the Soudan.] A kind of boomerang used by the Soudanese. Also fig.
1867. Baker, Nile Tribut., xx. (1872), 346. A curious weapon, the trombash, used by these people.
1876. C. C. Long, Central Africa, xvii. 237. Central Africa is a deadly pestiferous country, in spite of the ‘trumbash’ to the contrary by travellers.
1884. A. Gregory, in Fortn. Rev., March, 382. They use many weapons, lances and sickle-bladed knives and trumbashes, a kind of boomerang with mischievous-looking iron prongs and points.
