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English
Etymology
From war + club.
Noun
warclub (plural warclubs)
- A club used as a weapon of war by various indigenous peoples.
1855 November 10, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Blessing the Corn-fields”, in The Song of Hiawatha, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 175:Buried was the bloody hatchet, / Buried was the dreadful war-club, / Buried were all warlike weapons, / And the war-cry was forgotten.
Translations
club used as a weapon of war