英语词汇“knobkerrie”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

knobkerrie

释义

knobkerrie|ˈnɒbˌkɛrɪ|
Also knobkeerie, -kerri, -kerry, -kier(r)ie, -kirrie, -kurrie, knopkierie.
[f. knob n. + kerrie, var. of kierie, after Cape Du. knopkirie, -kieri.]
A short thick stick with a knobbed head, used as a weapon or missile by South African peoples. Also extended to similar weapons used by other peoples, e.g. in Polynesia and Australia.
1844United Service Mag. July 337 With the precious book..in one hand, and his knob-kurrie in the other, away he trudged.1849E. E. Napier Excurs. S. Afr. II. 82 The ‘knob keerie’..hurled with unerring aim, brings the smaller animals to the ground.1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (ed. 2) I. 231 Their [the Bechuana's] arms..consist of a shield, a bundle of assagais, a battle-axe, and a knobkerry.1879Athenæum 6 Dec. 731 Two aboriginal Australian skulls with occipital thickening, supposed to be induced by the blows of the native knobkerries.1899Howarth Shield & Assegai 93 The Kaffirs were armed with assegais and knobkerries.1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (1935) vi. lxix. 384 Spattering the brains of a cornered mob of Germans one by one with his African knob-kerri.1940Baumann & Bright Lost Republic 220 When a Basuto beats his wife, he does it with a knopkierie.1949Cape Argus 10 Nov. 1/6 Motibeli was struck on the head with a knobkierie.1961Reader's Digest Feb. 142/1 On the river-bed lay the weapon—an African knopkierie.1973Times 8 Feb. 1/5 The chanting Africans, waving knobkerries, were cordoned off by police.1974Eastern Province Herald 2 Sept. 1 Miners attacked each other with knobkerries.

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