Generally, the whip has a handle at one end and a metal dart, used for slashing or piercing an opponent, at the other.

She returned holding a metal dart.

Two white teen-age brothers are accused of using a blowgun to shoot two blacks with 3-inch metal darts, the police said today.

Jans was carrying the crossbow and three metal darts.

A small metal dart gleamed there, the blood just staring to well out around it.

The Steyr, for example, fires a metal dart, known as a flechette, that's lighter than a bullet but propelled at a higher speed.

Then he saw the metal dart in Burun's hand.

He heard a puff of breath, then a metal dart struck him in the finger.

'That's true,' said Vimes, and twisted the dead man's head so they could see the tip of the little metal dart behind the ear.

Beerdarts is a drinking game involving aluminum beer cans and metal darts.