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war club

war club is the alternative form of warclub.

Meaning of warclub

Noun

warclub (plural warclubs)

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

Forms of war club

pluralwar clubs

Words formed from war club

Questions about war club

What is war club the alternative form of?
War club is the alternative form of warclub.

Words near war club in the dictionary

  1. war chests
  2. war chief
  3. war chiefs
  4. war child
  5. war children
  6. war club
  7. war clubs
  8. war communism
  9. war correspondent
  10. war correspondents
  11. war cries

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