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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of club or cudgel, so called because whirled around the head. It does not appear that such a weapon was thrown.
  • noun A bat or club with a broad curved end used in one form of the game of hurling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete See whirlbat.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A lightweight medieval throwing-axe

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