Crossword clues for knobkerrie
The Collaborative International Dictionary
knobkerrie \knob"ker`rie\, knobkerry \knob"ker`ry\, n. [Boer D. knopkirie, fr. D. knop-hout, knotty stick + Hottentot k["i]rri club.] A short wooden club with a knobbed end used as a missile weapon by Kafir and other native tribes of South Afric
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of knobkerry English)
WordNet
n. a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa [syn: knobkerry]
Usage examples of "knobkerrie".
Had he known what was coming, he would have used his knobkerrie to that end upon the instant, for Doc had been smitten by another of those brilliant ideas that had made him famous and feared at school as a practical joker--though it is only fair to record that his jokes had always been harmless and good-natured ones until he had met Intamo.
The knobkerrie crashed upon the stout wood of the spear haft and glanced to one side.
The centurion had certain easily recognizable badges of office: he wore greaves on his shins, a shirt of scales rather than chain links, a helmet crest projecting sideways rather than front-to-back, and carried a stout knobkerrie of vine wood.
In his right he carried a knobkerrie like the mace of a medieval knight.
By the time one of the men started to draw the knobkerrie slung at his belt, Mamakitty had arrived.
But John Omally said no more, as at that moment Neville swung his knobkerrie and bopped him on the head.
With the robes and the beard and the knobkerrie and everything, he looked mightily impressive.
The Kaffir sees better in the dark than a white man, and a knobkerrie or an axe is a better weapon in a blind scrap than a gun.
From his hip pouch he brought the strip of mole-skin and bound it around his upper arm, then he hefted the heavy assegai and lead wood knobkerrie and nodded at Ezra.
Both angel and devil clutched wooden knobkerries broken from the forest.
But what he did find was more bar-bars, or anyhow traces of them, their buried bones mixed in with those peculiar knobkerries and assegais they favour in the wild.
Zulu knobkerries, the Wooster bean was not at its best as we moved off, and there was nothing in the way of conversational give-and-take until we had reached my car, which I had left at the front gate.
It is true that they have no guns, but very angry men can do much with knobkerries and axes.
He had fought in one Zulu and countless Afghan wars and the walls of his top-floor living-room in Cholderton Mansions were adorned with a fine selection of assegais, yataghans, and knobkerries.
Both angel and devil clutched wooden knobkerries broken from the forest.