Knobkerrie

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A wood knobkerrie, a native club, was raised high in the air. ❋ Malla Nunn (2010)

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. ❋ Malla Nunn (2010)

Behind the team the gun was bouncing over the ground, with some poor devil clinging to the muzzle, his feet trailing in the dust, until a Zulu, leaping behind, dashed his brains out with a knobkerrie. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In his confession, Hardus says he went upstairs and bashed his father on the head with a knobkerrie. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Its hard, dense wood is said to fashion the original cosh: the knobkerrie, or shillelagh, although Robert Graves asserts in The White Goddess that the weapon is in fact an oak club. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Some, carrying sjamboks and a knobkerrie, danced in the street under the watchful eye of police. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Was in Port Sudan lately and bought a nice old Beja throwing stick, some kaskara, a shield, jambiya and a staff or knobkerrie. ❋ Legatus Hedlius (2008)

Shoppers fled and shop-owners hurriedly lowered their shutters as thousands of stick - and knobkerrie-wielding protesters ran through Durban's city centre on Tuesday to the city hall to object to plans to rename streets after ANC heroes. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He danced with a bible in one hand and a knobkerrie in the other. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It sports the same colours but also portrays a shield, a knobkerrie and spears. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The proposed design strongly resembles a knobkerrie, with the head consisting of a glass orb supported by a gold drum. ❋ Unknown (2003)

By the time one of the men started to draw the knobkerrie slung at his belt, Mamakitty had arrived. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2001)

A spear and knobkerrie cross over the top of the shield, a sign of authority. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Mzwandile Ndaba and Charles Lieta testified that Mpungose was only hit with a knobkerrie under his feet. ❋ Unknown (2000)