war club Though perhaps the simplest of all weapons, clubs come in many varieties, including: •
Aklys – a club with an integrated leather thong, used to return it to the hand after snapping it at an opponent. Used by the legions of the
Roman Empire. •
Ball club – These clubs were used by Native Americans. There are two types; the stone ball clubs that were used mostly by early Plains, Plateau and Southwest Native Indians and the wooden ball clubs that the Huron and Iroquois tribes used. These consisted of a relatively free-moving head of rounded stone or wood attached to a wooden handle. •
Bang – Chinese military weapon type used in medieval times. Also used in modern
Wushu showcase and
martial-arts practice. •
Baseball, cricket and T-ball bats – The
baseball bat is often used as an improvised weapon, much like the
pickaxe handle. In countries where baseball is not commonly played, baseball bats are often first thought of as weapons.
Tee ball bats are also used in this manner. Their smaller size and lighter weight make the bats easier to handle in one hand than a baseball bat.
Cricket bats are heavier and their flat shape and short handle make them unwieldy as weapons, but they are more commonly available than baseball bats in some countries. •
Baton or
truncheon – forms used by law enforcement. •
Blackjack or
cosh – a weighted club designed to stun the subject. •
Bian – a tubular club used by medieval Chinese infantry and generals. • '''''' - a cylindrical wooden club used by Amazonian peoples •
Clava (full name
clava mere okewa) – a traditional stone hand-club used by
Mapuche Indians in Chile, featuring a long flat body. In Spanish, it is known as
clava cefalomorfa. It has some ritual importance as a special sign of distinction carried by the tribal chief. •
Cudgel – A stout stick carried by peasants during the Middle Ages. It functioned as a walking staff and a weapon for both self-defence and wartime.
Clubmen revolted in several localities against the excesses of soldiers on both sides during the
English Civil War. During the 18th century
singlestick fighting (a training sport for the use of the single handed
backsword) was called singlesticking, or cudgel-play. •
Gada – a mallet or blunt mace from the Indian subcontinent. •
Gata – a Fijian war club. •
Ghioagă – a Romanian club similar to a shillelagh; also called
Bâtă (the name comes from Latin
batt(u)ere – battery). This was used as a weapon in group fights against Ottoman Empire by irregular troops made up of peasants, vassals to local Princes in Wallachia and Moldavia. Early mentions of it occur from the 15th century in some historical sources. •
Gunstock war club – a war club stylized as the butt of a rifle •
Jiǎn – a type of quad-edged straight club specifically designed to break other weapons with sharp edges. •
Jutte or
jitte – a distinctive weapon of the
samurai police, consisting of an iron rod with a hook. It could parry and disarm a sword-wielding assailant without serious injury. Eventually, the jutte also came to be considered a symbol of official status. •
Kanabō (nyoibo, konsaibo, tetsubō, ararebo) – Various types of different-sized Japanese clubs made of wood and or iron, usually with iron spikes or studs. First used by the
samurai. •
Kanak war clubs – traditional maces used by the Kanak people of
New Caledonia •
Kiyoga – a spring baton similar in concept to the Asp collapsible police baton, but with the center section made of a heavy-duty steel spring. The tip and first section slide into the spring, and the whole nests into a seven-inch handle. To deploy the kiyoga, all that is necessary is to grasp the handle and swing. This causes the parts to extend from the handle into a baton seventeen inches long. The kiyoga has one advantage over a conventional collapsible baton: it can reach around a raised arm trying to block it to strike the head. •
Knobkerrie – a war club of southern and eastern Africa with a distinctive knob on the end •
Kubotan – a short, thin, lightweight club often used by law enforcement officers, generally to apply pressure against selected points of the body in order to encourage compliance without inflicting injury. •
Leangle – an Australian Aboriginal fighting-club with a hooked striking head, typically nearly at right angles to the weapon's shaft. The name comes from
Kulin languages such as
Wemba-Wemba and
Woiwurrung, based on the word
lia (tooth). •
Life preserver (also
hyphenated
life-preserver) – a short, often weighted club intended for self-defense. Mentioned in Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera
The Pirates of Penzance and in several
Sherlock Holmes stories. •
Mace – a metal club with a heavy head on the end, designed to deliver very powerful blows. The head of a mace may also have small studs forged into it. The mace is often confused with the spiked
morning star or with the articulated
flail. •
Mere – short, broad-bladed
Māori club, usually made from
nephrite jade and used for making forward-striking thrusts •
Morning star – a medieval club-like weapon consisting of a shaft with an attached ball adorned with one or more spikes •
Nulla-nulla – a short, curved hardwood club, used as a hunting weapon and in tribal in-fighting, by the Aboriginal people of Australia •
Nunchaku (also called
nunchucks) – an Asian weapon consisting of two clubs, connected by a short rope, thong or chain, and usually used with one club in hand and the other swung as a
flail. •
Oslop – a two-handed, very heavy, often iron-shod, Russian club that was used as the cheapest and the most readily available infantry weapon. •
Paddle club – common in the
Solomon Islands, these clubs could be used in warfare or for propelling a small dugout canoe. •
Rungu (
Swahili, plural
marungu) – a wooden throwing club or baton bearing special symbolism and significance in certain
East African tribal cultures. It is especially associated with
Maasai morans (male warriors) who have traditionally used it in warfare and for hunting. •
Sali, a Fijian war club •
Sally rod – a long, thin wooden stick, generally made from
willow (Latin
salix), and used chiefly in the past in Ireland as a disciplinary implement, but also sometimes used like a club (without the fencing-like technique of
stick fighting) in fights and brawls. In Japan this type of stick is called the
Hanbō meaning half stick, and in FMA (Filipino martial arts) it is called the
eskrima or
escrima stick, often made from
rattan. •
Shillelagh – a wooden club or cudgel, typically made from a stout knotty stick with a large knob on the end, that is associated with Ireland in folklore •
Slapjack – a variation of the
blackjack consisting of a longer strap which lets it be used like a
flail, and can be used as a club or for trapping techniques as seen in the use of
nunchaku and other flexible weapons •
Supi – a war club of the
Solomon Islands •
Telescopic baton – a rigid baton capable of collapsing to a shorter length for greater portability and concealability •
Tipstaff – a ceremonial rod used by a court officer of the same name •
Tonfa or
side-handle baton – a club of Okinawan origin featuring a second handle mounted perpendicular to the shaft •
Totokia – a
Fijian spiked club •
Trench raiding club – a type of melee weapon used by both sides in
World War I •
Ula – traditional throwing club from Fiji • '''
U'u''' – an exquisitely carved ceremonial club from the
Marquesan Islands, used as a chiefly status symbol •
Waddy – a heavy hardwood club, used as a weapon for hunting and in tribal in-fighting, and also as a tool, by the Aboriginal people of Australia. The word
waddy describes a club from New South Wales, but Australians also use the word generally to include other Aboriginal clubs, including the
nulla nulla and
leangle. •
Worraga – An Australian-aboriginal club with boomerang-like
aerodynamics. Can be thrown or hand-held. ==Animal appendages==