Definition of "knobkerrie" []

• A short club with one knobbed end, used as a weapon by warriors of certain South African peoples. (noun)

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• "Lawyers for Creamer have asked forensic experts to consider the possibility that a South African tribal stick known as a knobkerrie was used in the killing."
• "A few months later, in February 2008, Mrs Creamer killed her husband David by stabbing him once in the abdomen and bashing him, possibly with an African tribal stick known as a knobkerrie, at their home in the eastern Victorian town of Moe."
• "The hard clicks and tongue-twisting consonants of the Zulu language had a rhythm and a melody that was unique, and to speak it, even here in the dark, unarmed, with a knobkerrie poised above his head, gave Emmanuel pleasure."