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(noun) - The name given to an eighteenth-century practice whereby the churchwardens of a parish used their authority to enforce the marriage of a pregnant woman. The term "knobstick" was in allusion to the churchwarden's staff, his symbol of office. --Ebenezer Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898
April 22, 2018