The shafts of Arjuna fell like heavy clubs and spiked bludgeons.

Take up your big spiked bludgeon, and swat him galley-west!

Then Shrutakarma, taking up a spiked bludgeon, attacked Ashvatthama.

Then Nakula, steedless and carless and armourless, O monarch, quickly alighting from his car, stood, armed with a spiked bludgeon.

And bows and arrows constituted the rafts by which men sought to cross that terrible river, and maces and spiked bludgeons formed its snakes.