lathi
- n club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron; used by police in India
- The crowd found one-way traffic patterns, with 200 mounted police and 3,000 other lathi-wielding cops to enforce them.
- All the Hindus seemed frightenedas well they might, being completely unarmed, knowing they would be beaten blue and blacker by police lathi (sticks)but only a handful of .
- He completely refuses to admit that Soviet Russia has developed a new imperialism compared to which Britain's regime in India, lathi charges and all, was a riot of freedom.