war club
noun
plural war clubs
: a wooden club of any of various styles (as with a rounded wooden or stone head or a protruding blade) used as a weapon especially by Indigenous American warriors
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Arrowheads and pottery galore go back millennia, while Plains Indians headdresses and Osage war clubs represent just some of the holdings from the recent past.
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John Oseid, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
The course had tribes racing over a ramp and through a net tunnel before smashing a mask with a war club — yes, a freakin’ war club!
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025
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
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
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
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John Oseid, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
The course had tribes racing over a ramp and through a net tunnel before smashing a mask with a war club — yes, a freakin’ war club!
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025
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
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
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
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“War club.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/war%20club. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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