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knobstick (ˈnɒbstɪk) 1. A stick, cane, or club, having a rounded knob for its head; a knobbed stick.1824 [see b]. 1867 Crim. Chronol. York Castle 190 Beating him over the head with knobsticks. 1887 Jessopp Arcady vii. 192 With the knob sticks of the mob. b. Such a stick used as a weapon; a knobkerri...
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Knobstick
From the Afrikaans knopkierie
The Knobstick, an 1893 novel by C. Allen Clarke
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Knobstick wedding, a forced marriage of a pregnant single woman with the man known or believed to be the father
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Knobstick wedding
A knobstick wedding is the forced marriage of a pregnant single woman with the man known or believed to be the father. Knobstick weddings, however, more usually refer to those arrangements forced by a local parish.
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knob
▪ I. knob, n. (nɒb) Forms: α. 4–6 knobbe, (7 knobb, knobe), 6– knob. β. 5–7 nobbe, 7–9 nob. [ME., = MLG. and mod.G. knobbe knot, knob, bud, etc., Flem. knobbe(n lump (of bread, etc.): cf. knop, nob, knub, nub.] 1. a. A small rounded lump or mass, esp. at the extremity or on the surface of something,...
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KL-51
Crypto Machines - KL-51/RACE
http://www.knobstick.ca/pdf_files/race1.pdf
National Security Agency encryption devices
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snob
▪ I. snob, n.1 (snɒb) Also 9 Sc. snab. [Orig. slang, of obscure origin.] 1. a. dial. or colloq. A shoemaker or cobbler; a cobbler's apprentice.α 1781 in Hone Every-day Bk. II. 837 Sir William Blase, a snob by trade. 1785 Grose Dict. Vulgar T., Snob, a nick name for a shoemaker. 1819 Sporting Mag. IV...
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Dekichatta kekkon
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Shotgun wedding
Forced marriage
Knobstick wedding
Premarital sex
Oklahoma!
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nob
▪ I. † nob, n.1 Obs. [Of obscure origin: cf. Flem. nobbeling, the coarsest flax, of which sacking is made. See also nobbly a.] A knot (on thread).1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clxi. (Bodl. MS.) 230 b/2 Hurden..is clensing of offal of hempe oþer of flaxe..þerof is þrede sponne þat is..vneuen and ...
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C. Allen Clarke
Clarke's best-known novel, The Knobstick (1893), was originally serialised in the Yorkshire Factory Times. The Knobstick: a story of love and labour, 1893.
The Friend of Santa Claus, and Other Stories, 1893.
Tales of a Deserted Village, 1894.
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sexuality
sexuality (sɛksjuːˈælɪtɪ) [ad. mod.L. *sexuālitās: see sexual a. and -ity. Cf. F. sexualité.] 1. The quality of being sexual or having sex.a 1800 Cowper Wks. (1836) VII. 320 It is on their sexuality that he has built his poem [Loves of the Plants]. 1826 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. 325 The wonderful di...
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Shotgun wedding
However, sexual practice had not always followed social convention, resulting in shotgun or Knobstick weddings. after a kiss in a garden
The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Ben marries Adrian because she is pregnant
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Cohabitation
Forced marriage
Knobstick
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Pussy (horse)
Pussy was beaten by the colts Knobstick and Jacob Faithful for the gold Cup Stakes run in May at Epsom.
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Mary Barton (TV series)
Crombie as Judge
Donald Eccles as Clinton
Maxwell Foster as Lord John Russell
Patrick Godfrey as Williams
Martin Heller as Court Usher
Alan Lake as Knobstick
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Elizabeth Gaskell
In North and South Margaret Hale suggests redding up (tidying) the Bouchers' house and even offers jokingly to teach her mother words such as knobstick
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Yorkshire Factory Times
Examples of such serialized novels include Lancashire Lads and Lasses (which ran from November 1895 to February 1896) and The Knobstick, both authored
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