knobkerrie, verb transitive

Usually passive : to be beaten with a knobbed stick.

1914 S.P. Hyatt Old Transport Rd 81We should smash up our wagon; we should die of fever or be knob-kerried.

1970 A. McGregor in Outpost 66One man..had been knobkerried and left for dead on the veld.

to be beaten with a knobbed stick.

Derivatives:: Hence knobkerrying verbal noun, a beating with a knobkerrie.
1918 C. Garstin Sunshine Settlers 164Those who came along quietly were invited to a revival sing-song in my goat kraal, those who demurred got a description of hell from the Reverend and a Knobkerrying from Sixpence.

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