Knobstick may refer to: *

Strikebreaker A strikebreaker (sometimes called a scab, blackleg, or knobstick) is a person who works despite a strike. Strikebreakers are usually individuals who were not employed by the company before the trade union dispute but hired after or during the st ...

or blackleg, a derogatory archaic term for a worker who is not part of a union and works when others are striking * A weapon, a short stick with a knob at the top traditionally used by the indigenous peoples of South Africa. From the Afrikaans ''knopkierie'' *''The Knobstick'', an 1893 novel by

C. Allen Clarke Charles Allen Clarke (1863–1935), most widely known as C. Allen Clarke, was an English working-class humorist, novelist, journalist and social investigator from Lancashire. An Independent Labour Party (ILP) member and friend of Robert Blatchfo ...

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