warclub
See also: war club
English
Noun
warclub (plural warclubs)
- A club used as a weapon of war by various indigenous peoples.
- 1855 November 10, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Blessing the Corn-fields”, in The Song of Hiawatha, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 175:
- Buried was the bloody hatchet, / Buried was the dreadful war-club, / Buried were all warlike weapons, / And the war-cry was forgotten.
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Translations
club used as a weapon of war
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