What is "bludgeons"

Usage examples of "bludgeons".

The stalwarts saluted one another with their blood-spattered bludgeons each time that happened.

They weren't wearing their usual bludgeons, and were giving strangers directions.

They were armed with knives and great bludgeons and at their head marched an almost naked woman, beautiful beyond compare.

La and the priests gathered silently together, the hideous little men fingering their knives and bludgeons, and awaited the return of the shaggy anthropoid.

The males did not attack him at once, but busily engaged themselves in fetching dry grass and small pieces of wood from one of the covered chambers, and while the three girls, one of them scarce seven years of age, approached the ape-man warily with ready bludgeons, they prepared a fire over which they expected soon to be broiling juicy cuts from the strange creature that their hairy dam had brought them.

Instantly the three little demons swung their bludgeons and sprang forward to destroy him.

Accurately they could not hope to throw their missiles as far as a good bowman could speed his shaft and their bludgeons were helpless in the face of a well-thrown spear.

He knew little about them or their ways as yet, but what he did know was sufficient to convince him that they were as formidable foes as ever he had encountered and that while he remained weaponless he was no match against their great bludgeons and swift-thrown missiles.

They carried their heavy bludgeons and many-feathered pebbles, but most formidable of all was their terrific rage.

The leading women rushed courageously forward to close quarters where they might use their bludgeons and lay hold of the men with their mighty hands, but they learned then that spears were more formidable weapons than bludgeons, with the result that those who did not fall wounded, turned and fled.

Maybe a dozen of them jumped out into the street, waving assorted bludgeons and a few hatchets.

There were half a dozen of them, dressed in coarse homespun wool and roughly cured leather, hung with assorted bits of horn and plate for armor, and fairly dripping with weapons: daggers, short swords, long swords, bludgeons, horn-tipped longbows and quivers grain-sheaf thick with arrows.

Robbers and bravos shed blood enough with knives, bludgeons, and common tools.

CHAPTER VII "YOU MUST SACRIFICE HIM" Warily Cadj and his hundred frightful followers, armed with their bludgeons and knives, crept stealthily down the face of the barrier into the valley below, upon the trail of the white man and his black companions.

With ready bludgeons a dozen of them approached the thing that had aroused Cadj's curiosity, and when they had come close to it they saw lying before them the lifeless figure of Tarzan of the Apes.