NOUN
- a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa
How To Use knobkerry In A Sentence
- Zululand frontier, growled over his assegai and knobkerry. The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B.
- After some most extraordinary bargaining and after tempting him with solid, visible gold, we each secured a scjambok and a knobkerry at exorbitant prices, and left him even then grumbling and growling. In the Ranks of the C.I.V.
- Adele Myburgh, a police spokeswoman, said that a machete was found on his body and a knobkerry club was lying next to the bed. Top stories from Times Online
- The native loves a stick, and as he is forbidden to carry either an assegai -- which is a very formidable weapon indeed -- or even a knobkerry, only one degree less dangerous, he consoles himself with a wand or switch in case of coming across Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876
- Panda, on the Zululand frontier, growled over his assegai and knobkerry. The Romance of a Pro-Consul
- Mkhize arrived a short while ago dressed in a complete Zulu attire, which is made up of a cow skin apron, a shield, knobkerry and ubukopolo, an animal skin head crown decorated with bird feathers. News24 Top Stories
- There was a rush of bare feet on the soft deck, and through the gloom Carey was just able to make out that they were surrounded by a party of blacks, each poising a spear ready to throw and holding in his other hand either a knobkerry or a boomerang. King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale
- Each of them, however, bore in his hand a large knobkerry of red-wood, and they marched four by four in martial fashion. Allan and the Holy Flower
- First comes the able-bodied though elderly sire carrying a few light throwing-spears and a knobkerry or a gim-crack stabbing-spear, and close behind him are the adult males of his house similarly armed or with a rifle or two supplied by a benevolent Government for protection against the Mullah, to whom these children of nature frequently offer them for sale at very reasonable prices. Pan-Islam
