knobkerry

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knobkerry - a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa

club - stout stick that is larger at one end; "he carried a club in self defense"; "he felt as if he had been hit with a club"

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That research has been followed by studies of relics dating back to the Bronze Age as well as major investigations into weapons such as a flintlock weapon, an 1853 En-field musket, Zulu arms including a lklwa and a knobkerry, and a host of knives and swords.

SHOW OF ARMS FROM THE UNI; Demo by world famous Armour Institute

(34) The predominant injuries featured in the Rift were, essentially, the result of "people's weapons," pangas (machetes), arrows, knives, fungus (knobkerry), etc.