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baseball bat
club used for baseball, or as a weapon
tonfa
thumb|A pair of tonfa thumb|right|A pair of tonfa with a rounded body throughout. The tonfa (Okinawan: , Japanese: 旋棍; rōmaji: senkon lit. ''old man's staff / "crutch", also spelled as tongfa or tuifa, also known as T-baton) is a melee weapon with its origins in the armed component of Okinawan martial arts where it is known as the tunkua''. It consists of a stick with a perpendicular handle attached a third of the way down the length of the stick, and is about long. It was traditionally made from red or white oak, and wielded in pairs. The tonfa is believed to have originated in either China,
Kubotan
thumb|An original Kubotan keychain with keys attached A Kubotan is a self-defense keychain weapon developed by Sōke Takayuki Kubota in the late 1960s. It is typically no more than long and about in diameter, slightly thicker or the same size as a marker pen. The material is usually a hard high-impact plastic such as Lexan. The body of the Kubotan is lined with six round grooves with a screw eye or swivel and split ring attachment at one end for keys. The term is a portmanteau of Kubota (the creator's last name) and of the word Baton, and it is a genericized trademark.
yawara
thumb|A single dumbbell-shaped yawara stick The yawara is a Japanese weapon used in various martial arts. Numerous types of jujutsu make use of a small rod, made of wood, that extends somewhat from both ends of a person's fist which is known as a yawara. The yawara likely originated from the use of the tokkosho, a Buddhist symbolic object, by monks in feudal Japan. The tokkosho was used during the Edo period and it was made of brass. Sometimes a short rope or cord would be looped around the user's wrist to distract someone else while in combat. The methods of using a yawara may have been creat
ceremonial mace
ornamental staff to show authority rather than as an actual weapon
eku
thumb|right|350px|Example of an oak eku 72" long with closeup of round end and ridged spine on top side
Mordhau
offensive technique
macana
thumb|Macana club used by Indigenous Amazon rainforest|Amazonians The term macana, of Taíno origin, refers to various wooden weapons used by the various native cultures of Central and South America. These weapons were referred to as a hadzab or hats'ab in Yucatecan Mayan.
blunt instrument
any solid object used as a weapon