The instrument in the hand of the deceased. Though the determinative is , it does not necessarily mean that it is made of wood; it may be the determinative of weapons in general. It has prongs, which are compared to nails or claws, so that it probably is a weapon like the bident for spearing fishes, the tines of which are held together by a string (Wilkinson, Manners and Customs , 2nd edition, Vol. II, p. 107). Otherwise it is not unlike a netting needle (Wilkinson, loc. cit. , p. 175). If it is a weapon, one does not very well understand why it is said to belong to the net

It is a Key which looketh into the Chamber of Death, and generates Death, from whence proceed Earth, Stones, and all hard Things. II. Of the Second...

A snake-killer (mâro-gnô) is a stick on the end of which a leathern thong is provided; and it is declared that every one of the good religion must...