Newspapers ran pictures of them hiding their faces, with steel pipes and wooden batons on a table before them.

Gradually those early lessons came back to her, and she began to feel fairly confident at least with the wooden batons which served in practice.

It was all very well to practice with wooden batons where the only penalty for a missed stroke was a bad bruise.

Kubb is an old Nordic game, which involves tossing wooden batons at wooden blocks.

During some ceremonies, people situated around the house would take wooden batons and beat on plank drums situated through the house.

Kubb is a similar throwing game involving wooden batons instead of darts.

The police said they had used sjamboks because they caused less serious injury than the wooden batons also authorized for riot control.

In some areas however wooden batons are used because the winter cold makes rubber brittle.

The vigilantes beat demonstrators with wooden batons and rubber truncheons, sometimes hauling them out of their cars to do it.

Mounted police officers, long, wooden batons in hand, cantered off to join in the chase.