war club

noun

: a club-shaped implement used as a weapon especially by American Indians

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In addition to war clubs, which took the form of strikers, prodders, penetrators and throwers, Fijians fashioned clubs for peacetime, ceremonies and sacred rites. —

Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023 In 1996, an amateur archaeologist discovered a few human bones and an ancient wooden war club eroding out of the bank of the Tollense River. —

Hillary Waterman, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2019 If spectacle is part of your courtship plan, J-Prime is the ticket, with a posh lounge, strong cocktails and a tomahawk rib-eye with a long bone like the bleached handle of a primeval war club, a showcase of prime beef with a lush, fatty aura. —

Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Dec. 2021 That afternoon, while his wife pounded fruits to extract the seeds, Pukatire sat in a hammock, carving a war club. —

Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019