walking stick
See also: walkingstick and walking-stick
English
Noun
walking stick (plural walking sticks)
- A tool, such as a cane, used to ease pressure on the legs, and to aid stability, when walking.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
- It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
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- A stick insect (order Phasmida).
- (slang) A playing card with the rank of seven.
Synonyms
Translations
cane
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insect — see stick insect
See also
References
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN
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