Meaning of knobkerry | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“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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