Knobstick

'Now, Mr. Thornton, though "knobstick" has not a very pretty sound, is it not expressive? ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

About 4 P.M. returned our second messenger, bearing with him a reproving message from the Gerad, for not visiting him without delay; in token of sincerity, he forwarded his baton, a knobstick about two feet long, painted in rings of ❋ Unknown (2003)

It is a knobstick about a cubit long, made of some hard wood: the head is rounded on the inside, and the outside is cut to an edge. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Acting on this hint the black devil held up the child, and was about to kill it with his knobstick. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

As it chanced, though this was not their intention, in the confusion a heavy blow from a knobstick struck him on the temple. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

"I fun this knobstick nigh a gap i 'th' hedge on th 'Knoll Road," he said. ❋ Unknown (1877)

Then he stoops to pick it up, and knobstick comes down on his head. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

"And they'll knobstick 'im for it if they know -- see if they don't!" ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

Nowt like a knobstick, lad, whether it be a man or a bit o 'wood. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

He might hit at you wi 'his own fisty, but it's more'n likely as he'll do it wi' some one else's, or wi 'a clog or a knobstick. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

Young men, representing the new spirit, wore a kind of uniform, with the badge of mourning on the arm, and a knobstick in their hands adapted to the Jacobin skull. ❋ John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton (1868)

About 4 P.M. returned our second messenger, bearing with him a reproving message from the Gerad, for not visiting him without delay; in token of sincerity, he forwarded his baton, a knobstick about two feet long, painted in rings of Cutch colours, red, black, and yellow alternately, and garnished on the summit with a ball of similar material. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

At dawn on the 26th December, mounted upon a little pony, came Sherwa, heir presumptive to the Gerad Adan's knobstick. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

A great burly forger, whose red matted hair was powdered with coal-dust, and his face bloated with habitual intemperance, planted himself insolently before Henry, and said, in a very loud voice, "How many more trade meetings are we to have for one ---- knobstick?" ❋ Charles Reade (1849)

Horses News - Somali Pony At dawn on the 26th December, mounted upon a little pony, came Sherwa, heir presumptive to the Gerad Adan´s knobstick. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In terms of industrial action, a snob was a ` blackleg or knobstick, who either refused to strike or undercut his fellows. ' ❋ Unknown (1981)

Sherwa, heir presumptive to the Gerad Adan’s knobstick. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"DEAR SIR, -- I take the liberty of addressing you on the subject of your keeping on this knobstick, in defiance of them that has the power to make stones of Hillsborough too hot for you and him. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)

[Foreigners] do not steal [jobs], [bosses] and Knobsticks do. ❋ John Doe Sports Version (2014)

[Rick]: You're hair looks pretty stupid John: [Shut it], [knobstick]! ❋ Vince (2004)