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Definition of Knobkerries
1. knobkerrie [n] - See also: knobkerrie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knobkerries
Literary usage of Knobkerries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of Thw by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"... the barbed assegai and oval hide shield; but they also use a two-edged dagger
and knobkerries, and their wars with the Bushmen have forced them to adopt ..."
2. South Africa Half-hearted Reform: The Official Response to the Rising Tide by Mary McGovern, Bronwen Manby (1993)
"... pangas, knobkerries or sharpened sticks. Despite the shocking number of deaths
and injuries caused by these and other weapons in the factional violence, ..."
3. A Year's Housekeeping in South Africa by Barker (Mary Anne) (1883)
"The native police look very smart and shining in their white suits, and must be
objects of envy to their black brothers, on account of their " knobkerries," ..."
4. Zululand and Cetewayo: Containing an Account of Zulu Customs, Manners, and by Walter Robert Ludlow (1882)
"The dogs find them, and the boys knock them over with their knobkerries. The Zulus'
skill in the use of knobkerries is wonderful, and I have seen some ..."
5. My African Home: Or, Bush Life in Natal when a Young Colony 1852-7 by Eliza Whigham Feilden (1887)
"... with their knobkerries (a strong wooden stick with a ball at the end) soon
secured the beast, carried it over in triumph to our house, and laid it at ..."
6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"They are armed with the usual poisoned arrows, assegais, and knobkerries, and
those that can afford it have a Portuguese flint musket, the usual common ..."
7. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1886)
"We see the preliminaries of an execution ; a crowd is coming, knobkerries and
other weapons fill the air ; the motley crowd rush onwards, pushing their ..."
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