knobkerrie

/nob-ker-ee/US // ˈnɒbˌkɛr i //UK // (ˈnɒbˌkɛrɪ) //

钮扣里,钮扣利,钮扣里公司,钮钴禄氏

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a short, heavy wooden club with a knob on one end, used especially by native peoples of South Africa for striking and throwing.

Confronting him was a big Zulu, equally muscular, and armed with a formidable knobkerrie and a small shield.
He was armed with nothing but a knobkerrie, with which he struck and parried with lightning-like rapidity.
His left hand bore his assegais and knobkerrie beneath the great dappled ox-hide shield; and in his right a yellow walking-staff.
In the right hand he held his only weapon, a kind of short but deadly knobkerrie, while his left hand rested upon his naked knee.
They had been armed with muskets, and each carried a heavy knobkerrie.