knobkerrie

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Noun
  • After that, my father consulted with our mailman, who went to his truck and returned with a large cannister of mace.
    Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
  • According to Chicago police, 53 people were arrested, and nine weapons were recovered—including guns, knives, tasers, and bear mace.
    Shardaa Gray, CBS News, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • Aceh’s Sharia court ordered the two people to be whipped with a rattan cane 21 times each for kissing without being married.
    ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
  • Snappers, snakes, toy pistols with caps and toy canes with caps are the only fireworks allowed.
    Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • The sports question has become a political cudgel for Republicans with an eye on growing divisions among Democrats over stances on certain transgender issues that polls show are unpopular with a majority of voters.
    Simon Montlake, Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2026
  • The measure’s main backer is the SEIU United Health Workers West, whose president, Dave Regan, has a long track record of using ballot measures as a cudgel to win concessions from labor adversaries.
    Evelyn Ronan, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • The officers hit him with a baton and shocked him seven times.
    Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
  • Somebody had dropped the baton.
    Christopher Hooks, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • Hundreds of people crowded the runway to greet Ali, pushing against a cordon of soldiers armed with truncheons.
    Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
  • For the Civil Rights Movement, Alabama troopers lifting truncheons to beat marchers crossing Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge.
    Susan Page, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • He was also accused of stabbing the boy with a knife, hitting him with a nightstick and slamming his head into a vehicle.
    Dale Denwalt, Oklahoman, 20 Jan. 2026
  • No shots were fired, but many were struck with nightsticks and rifle butts, and about 250 were arrested.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Iran practices honest bludgeon work.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • But Beshear hasn’t turned Trump-bashing into a 24/7 vocation, or a weight-lifting contest where the winner is the critic wielding the heaviest bludgeon.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Also called billy button, sun ball, golf beauty, drumstick, and woolly head, craspedia stands out for its globe-like shape that sits atop a bare stem.
    Kate Nateras, Architectural Digest, 10 June 2026
  • And almost certainly cross $1 billion globally, with $2 billy still in its sights.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2026
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“Knobkerrie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knobkerrie. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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