单词 | knobkerry |
释义 | knobkerry (once / 241211 pages) n WORD FAMILY knobkerry: knobkerries USAGE EXAMPLESI had often seen the impis who lived in the compound go on a rampage with knobkerries and spears. Mark Mathabane, Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography(1986) Soon the people were upon him, beating him with their knobkerries and shouting angry words at him. Alexander Mccall Smith, The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Ot...(2004) These weapons, assegais, which are spears, and knobkerries, wooden sticks with a heavy wooden head, are actual weapons with which Inkatha members killed ANC members. Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom(1994) n a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa Syn|Hyper knobkerrie club stout stick that is larger at one end |
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