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knobkerry

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

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knobkerry

n. A wooden stick like a club, used in southern Africa.

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knobkerry

n. a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa [syn: knobkerrie]

Usage examples of "knobkerry".

Suddenly there was a mighty crash as Neville brought his knobkerry down on the bar top.

To her he had taken her own spiked knobkerry and got in a mortal stroke, but not before she reached under her pillow for a pistol, Junior's teenage bones testified by their arrangement to the violence of that leaden blow.

Taratan swung his fist like a knobkerry, but the captain ducked, took it on the shoulder, and grabbed the tail.