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Originally posted by Bob Moseley
Hi Keefy and others
No wonder you are confused as our time-warped Winballton can't even spell correctly. PANJI PIT. Basically a hole in the ground with sharpened bamboo stakes facing up to penetrate the feet of people becoming trapped in them. A clever method of inflicting injury that required the logistics of more personnel to remove the wounded as opposed to removing the dead.
Bob
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Actually, Bob, my spelling IS allowed. The word comes from the old English "pungent", with the following abridged definition according to Volume II of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary:
1. Pricking, piercing, sharp-pointed [1601]; 2. Sharp, keen, acute, poignant; causing or inflicting sharp pain; keenly distressing [1597].
The word comes from the Latin
pungere. Americans in Viet Nam commonly called them
punji sticks or
punji pits but I chose the English derivation of the word.
