The “Budd”, or Somali club, resembles the Kafir “Tonga”. 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.
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Knobstick
//ˈnɒbstɪk//
Synonyms for "knobstick" (4 found)
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‘Don’t you see what you would be? You’d be a knobstick. You'd be taking less wages than the other labourers—all for the sake of another man’s children. Think how you’d abuse any poor fellow who was willing to take what he could get to keep his own children. You and your Union would soon be down upon him […]’
Source: wiktionary
The mill agents, it was rumored, supplied the knobsticks with beer and whiskey, fearing to let them walk the streets.
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