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‖ kierie|ˈkɪərɪ|
Also 8–9 kirri, 9 kierie, kiri, keeri(e, keri(e.
[Hottentot or Bushman. Kolbe 1745 has ‘Kirri a stick or staff’, Arbousset Bushman Vocab. ‘Club, Keri’.]
A short club or knobbed stick used as a weapon by natives of South Africa. See also knobkerrie.
1731Medley Kolben's Cape G. Hope I. 188 The Kirri is about three foot long; and about an inch thick. 1785G. Forster tr. Sparrman's Voy. Cape G. Hope (1786) II. 9 They were all of them armed with..javelins, which they call hassagais, as well as with short sticks, to which they gave the name of kirris. 1815Barrow Trav. S. Africa 367 The Keerie, or war-club. 1824W. J. Burchell Trav. S. Afr. I. 354 A keeri or kirri (a short knob-stick) in his hand. 1885Haggard K. Solomon's Mines x. (1887) 160 Savage-looking men..with spears in one hand and heavy kerries in the other. 1939A. W. Wells S. Afr.: Planned Tour 410/1 Some Afrikaans words are used in English conversation, e.g.:..kierie, walking-stick. 1953Cape Times 5 Jan. 1/7 There were about 1,000 fighting with kieries. 1970Cape Herald 15 May 3/3 He found..a kierie, a two-piece pink costume, a night gown... The costume and gown had blood spots on them.
attrib.1731Medley Kolben's Cape G. Hope I. 330 The women rarely trouble themselves to interpose when the men fight only with Kirri sticks. 1959Cape Times 10 Nov. 1/1 Two other Europeans had been discharged after being treated for kierie wounds. |