knobkierie (plural knobkieries)
South African: A fighting stick usually with a knob on the end.
A bludgeon.

VOICE ONE: Im Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. In the early eighteen hundreds, traveling in the United States was dangerous. Business and trading were limited. Then came the waterway called th

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262. Perry's Victory on Lake Erie, 1813. 262.偑里在伊利湖取得胜利(1813年) But the British triumph did not last long. In the winter of 1812-13 Captain Oliver Hazard Perry built a fleet of warships on Lake Erie. 但是,英国人的胜利

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学英语单词
a good field
abstinency
abundaunce
achnanthes bengalensis
alcoholic beverage industry
ammonium ferrocyanide
Anchises
Ardak
Aruba Lodge
at-grade intersection
autotirator
Ballycastle Bay
Bier's amputation
book collector
bulletproofed
call drink
cast-iron box
cathode ray tube spot scanner
cicatricial stricture of esophagus
cobalt(ii) fluoride
composite basis
costo
counter-revolutions
counterbattery
cratonic block
crown leather
cut end
cyclical permuted code
de-aera-tordeaerator
dental lymph
dolomite-throwing machine
ennoblement
episodic hypertension
ethyl orange
fernard
file sizes
flyback power supply
garage queen
gutter area
houes
hydraulicons
inferior advantage
interleaved memory
ivpp
Khālispur
Koshigaya
kulit
Lajmah, Jab.al
living species
maremusset
maritime reconciliation
microparticles
mind-blindness
molecular current
Mountfield
Muarabenangin
Mycenaean civilization
natural body
nitrate of silver
Odivelas, R.
oil based coating
orblet
overswelled
Papaver alpinum
pastoral stage
permitted electron band
pill pool
platts
polyetherketoneketone (pekk)
polyethylene tube
presumer
Pseudoceratites
pulse-voltage control multichrome screen
quartzose subgraywacke
quinazosin
rack arm support
rexroths
road workers
romare
roole
rugosity
setteseven
silver (electro)plating
siphoniferous
smoke eliminator
star delta starting
steam turbine-electric propulsion apparatus
stepe
strain-gauge amplifier
super vector computer
superior costotransverse ligament
tailstock centre
tiple
top sth off
truck lifter
turning operation
U-cup packing
underwater vision
unit-cohesion
vocoidal
well-speaking
Zumaia