makiwara
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[edit]Noun
[edit]makiwara (plural makiwaras)
- A padded post used for hitting practice in karate.
- 2023 May 14, Alix Strauss, “How the Head of a Filmmaking Center Spends His Sundays”, in The New York Times[1]:
- There’s a weight lifting and elliptical machine, a recumbent bicycle, a heavy bag, a punching dummy and a makiwara, which is a punching board that focuses your punching and turns your hands into bricks.