knobstick

Definitions

n. One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trade union.
n. A stick, cane, or club terminating in a knob; esp., such a stick or club used as a weapon or missile; a knobkerrie.

n. A heavy stick or cane with a knob.
n. In England, a workman who refuses to join a trades-union or retires from it, and who works when the members of the union are on strike. Also knob, nob, blacknob, and blackleg. Equivalent to scab in the United States.
n. Also spelled nobstick.

From knob +‎ stick.

'Now, Mr. Thornton, though "knobstick" has not a very pretty sound, is it not expressive?

North and South
About 4 P.M. returned our second messenger, bearing with him a reproving message from the Gerad, for not visiting him without delay; in token of sincerity, he forwarded his baton, a knobstick about two feet long, painted in rings of

First footsteps in East Africa
It is a knobstick about a cubit long, made of some hard wood: the head is rounded on the inside, and the outside is cut to an edge.

First footsteps in East Africa
Acting on this hint the black devil held up the child, and was about to kill it with his knobstick.

Allan's Wife
As it chanced, though this was not their intention, in the confusion a heavy blow from a knobstick struck him on the temple.

The Ghost Kings
"I fun this knobstick nigh a gap i 'th' hedge on th 'Knoll Road," he said.

That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
Then he stoops to pick it up, and knobstick comes down on his head.

Patience Wins War in the Works
"And they'll knobstick 'im for it if they know -- see if they don't!"

Patience Wins War in the Works
Nowt like a knobstick, lad, whether it be a man or a bit o 'wood.

Patience Wins War in the Works
He might hit at you wi 'his own fisty, but it's more'n likely as he'll do it wi' some one else's, or wi 'a clog or a knobstick.

Patience Wins War in the Works