waddy

"No not of fire-arms; but they have a machine of their own that they call a waddy, or something of that sort, which they throw like a harpoon; but the thing takes a twist in the air, and strikes behind them."

Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien

They used simple baskets, digging sticks, spears without stone points, and a sort of lightweight club known as a waddy.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

They used simple baskets, digging sticks, spears without stone points, and a sort of lightweight club known as a waddy.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

The waddy was a short piece of wood, reduced and notched towards the grasp, and slightly rounded at the point.

The History of Tasmania , Volume II John West 1840

He was the loud-mouthed and overbearing kind of waddy -- a gunman first and a cowman afterward.

Kid Wolf of Texas 1938

How he was a noted "waddy," or cattle-rustler; how he and his gang had held up three trains in eighteen months; how he had killed Tom Mooney, Bob

Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West William MacLeod Raine 1912

"waddy," torn from the vindictive tree and flung, high and straight into the inoffensive sky, descended flat on the red stump with a gunlike report.

My Tropic Isle 1887

In 1876, while still a young cow waddy, Cook helped drive a herd from the Nueces River deep in southeast Texas all the way to the Dakotas.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

Each cow waddy going up the trail had to have six to ten mounts, because horses, like people, possess varied qualifications.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

The rich keep kind of marrying each other and so you've got these kids are driving around, big waddy head kids, you know, they have got a BMW, but they have got to have something to keep their head, you know, so it doesn't fall over.

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