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Meanings of knobkerrie in anglès

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A short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa.

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        Examples for "knobkerry"
        Examples for "knobkerry"
        1
        Panda, on the Zululand frontier, growled over his assegai and knobkerry.
        The Romance of a Pro-Consul / Being the Personal Life and Memoir...
        2
        I have slain the beri-beri with a ball from my knobkerry;
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 15, 1919
        3
        Each of them, however, bore in his hand a large knobkerry of red-wood, and they marched four by four in martial fashion.
        Allan and the Holy Flower
        4
        They jeered at the police and shook their spears and knobkerries.
        Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
        5
        I was up on the Knobkerry River, prospecting for diamonds, in Omomborombunga's country.
        Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody
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