"knobkerry" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "knobkierie"
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1993, John Banville, Ghosts",
          "text": "I close my eyes and see the pickers bending on the green hillsides, their saffron robes and slender, leaf-brown hands; I see the teeming docks where half-starved fellows with legs like knobkerries sticking out of ragged shorts have stencilled wooden chests and call to each other in parrot shrieks; I even see the pottery works where this cup was spun out of cloud-white clay one late-nineteenth-century summer afternoon by an indentured apprentice with a harelip and a blind sister waiting for him in their hovel up a pestilential back lane.",
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        "Alternative form of knobkierie"
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  "word": "knobkerry"
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    {
      "form": "knobkerries",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "knobkierie"
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          "ref": "1993, John Banville, Ghosts",
          "text": "I close my eyes and see the pickers bending on the green hillsides, their saffron robes and slender, leaf-brown hands; I see the teeming docks where half-starved fellows with legs like knobkerries sticking out of ragged shorts have stencilled wooden chests and call to each other in parrot shrieks; I even see the pottery works where this cup was spun out of cloud-white clay one late-nineteenth-century summer afternoon by an indentured apprentice with a harelip and a blind sister waiting for him in their hovel up a pestilential back lane.",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of knobkierie"
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