warclub

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English

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Etymology

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From war +‎ club.

Noun

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warclub (plural warclubs)

  1. 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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