knobkerrie(n = noun.artifact) knobkerry - a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa;
is a kind of club

   A short wooden club with a knobbed end used as a missile weapon by Kafir and other native tribes of South Africa. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

knobkerrie, n. a short stick with a knobbed head used as a weapon esp. by S. African tribes.

Etymology:
after Afrik. knopkierie