Clubs (weapon)

short staff or stick, usually made of wood, wielded as a weapon

sports equipment

blunt weapon constituted of a long handled and a massive head to inflict traumatic injuries by striking

club of less than arm's length

club used for baseball, or as a weapon

club-like weapons

thumb|right|Assorted shillelaghs A shillelagh ( ; or , 'thonged willow') is a wooden walking stick and club or cudgel, typically made from a stout knotty blackthorn stick with a large knob at the top. It is associated with Ireland and Irish folklore.

300px|thumb|A display of Zulu people|Zulu knobkerries (foreground) A knobkerrie, also spelled knobkerry, knobkierie, and knopkierie (Afrikaans), is a form of wooden club, used mainly in Southern Africa and Eastern Africa. Typically they have a large knob at one end and can be used for clubbing an enemy's head. For the various peoples who use them, they often have marked cultural significance. Being able to carry the knobkerrie has also had a political dimension, especially in South Africa.

A hakapik () is a club, of Norwegian design, similar to a fishing gaff, used for killing and moving seals. The hakapik is a multipurpose hunting tool—a heavy wooden club, with a hammer head (used to crush a seal's skull), and a hook (used to drag the carcass) on the end.

type of blunt hand-held weapon, Improvised weapon

thumb|right|A patu paraoa at the British Museum. thumb|right|Mete Kīngi Paetahi, circa 1869 by unknown photographer.

thumb|Waddies made by the Arrernte people thumb|Aboriginal man carrying waddy, woomera (spear-thrower) and spear, South Australia, c. 1876 A waddy, nulla-nulla, leangle or boondi is an Aboriginal Australian hardwood club or hunting stick for use as a weapon or as a throwing stick for hunting animals. Waddy comes from the Darug people of Port Jackson, Sydney. Boondi is the Wiradjuri word for this implement. Leangle is a Djadjawurrung word for a club with a hooked striking head.

Māori tear-shaped broad-bladed weapon used in ceremonial dance or combat

thumb|150px|right|Wahaika, circa 1900. Rietberg Museum. A wahaika is a type of traditional Māori hand weapon. Wahaika are short club-like weapons usually made of wood or whalebone and are used for thrusting and striking in close-quarter, hand-to-hand fighting. Whalebone wahaika are called wahaika parāoa.

thumb|A tewhatewha at the British Museum. A tewhatewha is a long-handled Māori club weapon shaped like an axe. Designed to be held in two hands, the weapon comes to a mata (point) at one end and a rapa (broad, quarter-round head) at the other.

thumbnail|Two kotiate made of whalebone thumb|Māori war-clubs. The kotiate is second from right. Kotiate is a type of traditional hand weapon of the Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand.

thumb|Leiomano made with tiger shark teeth Early 19th-century Hawai'ian leiomano|thumb thumb|Leiomano knuckle duster at the [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art.]] The leiomano is a shark-toothed club used by various Polynesian cultures, primarily by the Native Hawaiians.

homemade melee weapons used during World War I

A bulibuli or vunikau bulibuli is a Fijian war club. thumb|Bulibuli, 19th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art thumb|Fijian warriors, the one on the left with a bulibuli