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Meanings of knobkerry in inglés

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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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        Usage of knobkerry in inglés
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        Panda, on the Zululand frontier, growled over his assegai and knobkerry.
        The Romance of a Pro-Consul / Being the Personal Life and Memoir...
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        I have slain the beri-beri with a ball from my knobkerry;
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 15, 1919
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        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
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        They jeered at the police and shook their spears and knobkerries.
        Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
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        I was up on the Knobkerry River, prospecting for diamonds, in Omomborombunga's country.
        Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody
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        Then the Kafirs all began to shout together, and banged the door with their knobkerries.
        Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases: Seventeen Short Stories
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        They were armed only with knobkerries, and very clearly were no part of Laputa's army.
        Prester John
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        Out of the longer horns the natives manufacture "knobkerries" (clubs), and loading-rods for their guns.
        The Bush Boys: History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his F...
        9
        Guns, carbines, rifles, blunderbusses, knives, spears, revolvers, daggers, arrows, assegais, knobkerries, knuckledusters and I know not what.
        Tartarin De Tarascon
        10
        They carried long sticks and knobkerries.
        The new yorker
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        We had an exhausting conflict with a crusty old Jew, with whom we bargained for scjamboks and knobkerries.
        In the Ranks of the C.I.V.
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        It punched small knobkerries of knees against my rib cage, all but knocking the breath out of me.
        Sister Mine
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        The miners were carrying knobkerries and making their way to one of the two koppies where the shooting took place.
        The South African
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        The men nodded, and set to work to make a kind of litter out of their knobkerries and some old ropes they carried.
        Prester John
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        The two elder people were each holding small knobkerries, that is, stout sticks with wired handles and heavy heads made by the natives.
        Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa
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