Dictionary / Vocabulary / 棒切れ
ぼうきれ · also ぼうぎれ
stick; piece of wood; billet; piece of a broken pole
Also written 棒きれ、棒切
学校に本や紙や鉛筆がないのを知ると、彼女は棒きれで地面にアルファベットを書いた。
When the school had no books or paper or pencils, she wrote the alphabet on the ground with a stick.
彼はその棒切れを狩猟ナイフで削り尖らせた。
He whittled the stick to a sharp point with his hunting knife.