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Definition of "war-club" []

  • A club of wood, bone, or other material used in warfare. Such clubs show great variety in form and workmanship, and are found among nearly all primitive peoples. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "war-club" in a sentence
  • "And at night, where I lay bound like a wild pig for the slaying, and they slept weary by the fire, she crept upon them and brained them with the war-club that with my hands I had fashioned."
  • "Whereupon Lone Chief leaped up the bank war-club in hand and a great war-cry on his lips, and dashed into the village."
  • "The first man he met was Itwilie, chief over the Mukumuks, and him Lone Chief smote upon the head with his war-club, so that he fell dead upon the ground."