What is "blackjacks"

Usage examples of "blackjacks".

Lady Zenadia was the woman who had bought the Vipers their blackjacks?

To the boys the lady said, "Once you have taught the other Vipers the use of blackjacks, you will enter Camelgut" she wrinkled her nose "territory by stealth.

They had their own weapons in hand, including lead-weighted blackjacks.

The cattle could graze under the blackjacks without disturbing the general balance of nature too much.

If groves of blackjacks didn't block your way, in the open spaces between the groves, huge thickets of wild plum made it impossible to pass, and where they didn't grow, vines of honeysuckle waited to trip you, and wild blackberry bushes were perfectly prepared to act like tangles of barbed wire.

As the mule rounded a stand of blackjacks, the ridge Jennifer wanted loomed right up in front of them, mostly tallgrass-covered slope.

They had blackjacks, but didn’t get a chance to use them, for Renny came up off the floor as though he had been on springs.

As it was, there was a row of fallen figures around him before two blackjacks hit him at the same time from behind.

It caught Monk in the back of the head just as three gunmen bore Ham to the ground, slugging him viciously with blackjacks.

The others had slipped around behind him, had lifted their blackjacks, ready to strike.

The guns were knocked from their hands, even as blackjacks swished through the air harmlessly.

As they neared the sort of island in the sky, he reined in and dismounted, telling them to do the same as he explained, "The winds up here have tangled those blackjacks, and better yet, there's an undertangle of hellish bow-wood, if only we can get these ponies through it.

As he crawfished back under the blackjacks, Minerva protested, "I couldn't repel a charge with this toy if I knew how to use it!

He was stoking the smudge fire atop the knoll with fresh green branches, with the two gals hunkered nearby, when old Hawzitah came through the blackjacks again to report, "They were riding shod ponies.

Then the Gurkhas would wade in with their blackjacks and iron bars, and the lazy would find new strength.