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Knobstick. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2025. Knobstick 1.  A stick, cane, or club, having a rounded knob for its head; a knobbed stick.

1 1824.  [see b].

2 1867.  Crim. Chronol. York Castle, 190. Beating him over the head with knobsticks.

3 1887.  Jessopp, Arcady, vii. 192. Political nostrums which they are prepared to force down the throats of the community with the knob sticks of the mob.

4   b.  Such a stick used as a weapon; a knobkerrie.

5 1822.  Burchell, Trav. S. Afr., I. 354. A kéeri (a short knob-stick) in his hand.

6 1859.  R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., 266. Terrifying the enemy with maniacal gestures, while stones and knobsticks fly through the air.

7 1894.  B. Mitford, Curse Clement Waynflete, vii. 241. The warrior’s heavy knobstick, hurled with deadly precision.

8   2.  A name given, by workmen, to one who during a strike or lock-out continues to work on the master’s terms; a black-leg. (See also quot. 1892.) Also attrib.

9 1826.  Examiner, 15 Oct., 663/2. Skirmishes … between the turn-outs and those whom they call ‘knobsticks.’

10 1826.  Ann. Reg., 151/2. One man, a weaver, was accused of being ‘a knobstick spinner.’

11 1848.  Mrs. Gaskell, Mary Barton, xvi. Taken up last week for throwing vitriol in a knob-stick’s face.

12 1892.  Labour Commission, Gloss., A knobstick is one who takes the work of an operative on strike, or refuses to go out on strike along with his fellow-workmen…. Workmen … who are not members of a trade union are frequently called knobsticks by the unionist workmen. The term is also applied to men who work at a trade to which they served no apprenticeship.

13   b.  A master who employs men on terms not recognized by a trade-union.

14 1851–61.  Mayhew, Lond. Labour, III. 220 (Hoppe). I next went to work at a under-priced hatter’s, termed a ‘knobstick’s.’

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