knobstick wedding

(thing) by adoxograph (5.2 y) Fri Mar 24 2000 at 6:37:30
An early term for a shotgun wedding. Churchwardens would use their authority to enforce the wedding of a newly pregnant woman. The "knobstick" was an allusion to the warden's symbol of office, his staff.
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