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Meanings of
knobkerry
in English
Portuguese
fanfarrão
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A short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa.
knobkerrie
Portuguese
fanfarrão
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Usage of
knobkerry
in English
1
Panda, on the Zululand frontier, growled over his assegai and
knobkerry
.
2
I have slain the beri-beri with a ball from my
knobkerry
;
3
Each of them, however, bore in his hand a large
knobkerry
of red-wood, and they marched four by four in martial fashion.
4
They jeered at the police and shook their spears and
knobkerries
.
5
I was up on the
Knobkerry
River, prospecting for diamonds, in Omomborombunga's country.
6
Then the Kafirs all began to shout together, and banged the door with their
knobkerries
.
7
They were armed only with
knobkerries
,
and very clearly were no part of Laputa's army.
8
Out of the longer horns the natives manufacture
"
knobkerries
"
(clubs), and loading-rods for their guns.
9
Guns, carbines, rifles, blunderbusses, knives, spears, revolvers, daggers, arrows, assegais,
knobkerries
,
knuckledusters and I know not what.
10
They carried long sticks and
knobkerries
.
11
We had an exhausting conflict with a crusty old Jew, with whom we bargained for scjamboks and
knobkerries
.
12
It punched small
knobkerries
of knees against my rib cage, all but knocking the breath out of me.
13
The miners were carrying
knobkerries
and making their way to one of the two koppies where the shooting took place.
14
The men nodded, and set to work to make a kind of litter out of their
knobkerries
and some old ropes they carried.
15
The two elder people were each holding small
knobkerries
,
that is, stout sticks with wired handles and heavy heads made by the natives.
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Frequent collocations
large knobkerry
Translations for
knobkerry
Portuguese
fanfarrão
exibido
Knobkerry
through the time