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► 成句
  [ぼう]  [足が棒になる]    meaning:  tire  rank: 4
☆ 一日中歩いてが棒になった ⇨ I walked all day and my legs have become sticks, dead tired

► 名詞
  [ぼう]    meaning:  stick  rank: 2
☆ 指揮棒 ⇨ A conductor baton
☆ 教師生徒を棒でくのは普通だった ⇨ In the past it was common for teachers to beat students with sticks
☆ 棒高跳びの棒 ⇨ A pole vault pole

  [ぼう]  [coll]    meaning:  line  rank: 4
☆ 名前に棒をいた ⇨ He drew a line over, struck out, the name


More examples:
  • 売春宿で用心棒をしていた ⇨ He was a bouncer at a brothel
  • に泥棒が入った ⇨ A thief entered, broke in, my house
  • あいつは仕事の相棒だ ⇨ He’s my work partner
  • から棒にだ? ⇨ What are you talking about out of the blue?
  • 泥棒が彼女引ったくった ⇨ A thief snatched her handbag
  • は棒を突っ込んだ ⇨ He shoved the stick into the hole
  • は棒の掴んだ ⇨ He gripped the end of the stick
  • 泥棒にらされた ⇨ A burglar ransacked my house
  • 盗み入っているまった間抜けな泥棒 ⇨ A stupid burglar who got arrested while sleeping in the house he had broken in
  • 子供が鉄棒にぶらがっている ⇨ A kid is dangling from a pull-up bar
  • の棒をいとも簡単にひんげた ⇨ He bent the steel bar as if nothing
  • は棒をてがえてえた ⇨ He supported the fence by applying a stick as a prop
  • 相手を泥棒呼ばわりした ⇨ He called the other person a thief
  • は棍棒のような叩き殺されていた ⇨ He was beaten to death with a club like object
  • 泥棒が宝石をごっそり盗んだ ⇨ A thief stole a tons of jewelry from the store