Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A weapon for secret attack used among the Mahrattas in India, consisting of short, sharp, curving steel blades, secured to a strap or plate passing across the palm of the hand, and so arranged as not to wound the user. An apparently friendly movement of the hand inflicts a terrible wound.
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Examples
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Later, he produced Mut-mut's baag-nouk, laying it, talons upward, beside the Webley.
Ambrotox and Limping Dick Oliver Fleming
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From the dirty cloth he unwrapped Mut-mut's baag-nouk, slipped his right hand into its straps and rings, and sank to his knees on the floor of the carriage, facing the door and its open, unblinded window.
Ambrotox and Limping Dick Oliver Fleming
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On a second effort the slight yielding of the mass was accompanied by a sound of rending and he remembered Mut-mut's right hand, armed with a weapon of unspeakable cruelty, which only once before in his life had he seen -- the Mahratta baag-nouk, or Tiger's Claw.
Ambrotox and Limping Dick Oliver Fleming
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Dick loosened the buckle of the strap, and drew the hand, already cold, from the rings; picked the baag-nouk from the cushion, wrapped it in a greasy cloth out of the tool-box, and hid it under the seat.
Ambrotox and Limping Dick Oliver Fleming
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