Meanings of knobbed stick in English

Then he got violent-triedto get at me with his knobbed stick.

In his hand he carried a huge metal- knobbed stick.

The gardener angrily seized his knobbed stick in order to chastise the dog, but his master held him back.

But the knobbed stick and the artificial limb puzzled me so completely that I presently overtook Thorndyke to demand an explanation.

Their dress was a girdle of strips of catskins, and they each carried two javelins and a knobbed stick for throwing.

I watched it through the thick hedge as it approached and resolved itself into a seedy-looking man carrying a thick knobbed stick.

Jacob Baines took up a heavy knobbed stick which happened to be leaning against the hay-rick, and eyed it with savage meaning.

The ferrule of a knobbed stick wears evenly all round; that of a crooked stick wears on one side-theside opposite the crook.

He carried a sheepskin kaross, or blanket, on his left shoulder, and a knobbed stick, or "kerrie," in his right hand.

In his room was found a large knobbed stick, such as might have caused the wound, with the knob still damp, apparently from recent washing.

I suppose no one has ever yet seen the man without a knobbed stick in his hand, of that you can be certain, quite certain.

Speaking of Vachel Lindsay, his "Handy Guide for Beggars" will bring an itch along the shanks of those who love shoe-leather and a knobbed stick.

"It must be him I drove a couple of times," said the driver; "he had a knobbed stick."