What is "waddie"

Usage examples of "waddie".

At length they attempted to turn Dermott out, but were kept at bay by the waddie which he held in his hand, and which was too deadly a weapon to encounter, especially in the experienced hands of Dermott.

The only weapon he had in his hand, either of offence or defence, was a leanguil or waddie, a deadly kind of weapon used by the blacks.

Constable Amos Payne and myself that somebody with some motive must have paid that otherwise useless gun waddie to lay for your engineer like that.

He had a waddie in his hand, which he slowly raised to give me a pat on the head, thinking that he had me quite safe, like an opossum in its hole.

They were headed by the old woman and the conjuror, who held waddies in their hands, which they brandished with frightful contortions.

Jerry, who was struggling with the natives, and fighting with his fists against their waddies, with which they were beating him.

I ever meet one of you Texas waddies that says he never drank from a horse track I think I will shake his hand and give him a Daniel Webster cigar.

Sahara still sowed quick-sprouting seed in those draws they called something like waddies in their own lingo.

And come to study on it, what else might he have wanted with two dumb but dishonest gun waddies on his payroll?

But recruiting all those dumb but dishonest gun waddies would have made no sense if he was up to his usual flimflams.

He was now more convinced that both gun waddies had been after him in particular, meaning poor Gaylord Stanwyk had been mistaken for him at the depot the day before.

Rocking T waddies running around taking potshots at us, acting like you owned the whole goddam country.

A Native Encampment--Conference with Musqueeto--A Savage has a Soul--The lost Child recovered--How to Catch an Opossum--A Kangaroo Hunt by the Natives--The Apparition of Spears and Waddies excites disagreeable Suspicions.

Their heads were battered to a jelly-like mass, from the frequent blows of the waddies, a small and light club of hard wood, which forms the weapon of the natives of Australia in close combat.

The waddies were of no use against the broad-swords of horsemen, and their slight spears were not strong enough to serve as pikes, so that they were completely at the mercy of the sabres.