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/wˈɔkɪŋ stɪk/ Listen

Walking stick

noun

A stick carried in the hand for support in walking.

Any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies. Synonyms: stick insect, walkingstick.

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"Walking stick" Quotes from Famous Books

... they went—the big best man with the red hands and the lavender kid gloves and the opulent-looking old gentleman with the gold-rimmed spectacles and the handsome walking stick. ...

— Peter Ruff and the Double Four • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... stock-yard rails, waiting until a rash chicken or duckling should, in spite of its mother's warning clucks of terror, insist on coming out from under her sheltering wings. If I took an umbrella, or a croquet mallet, or a walking stick, and went out, the bird would remain quite unmoved, even if I held my weapon pointed gun-wise towards him. But let anyone take a real gun and hold it ever so well hidden behind their back, and emerge ever so cautiously from the shelter of the shrubs, my fine gentleman ...

— Station Amusements • Lady Barker

... soon returned with a box in his hands, apparently of some weight, and a bundle slung across his shoulder, suspended on a walking stick. Putting down the box he ...

— Gladys, the Reaper • Anne Beale

... out of his room from the lower end of the hall, encountered the beast, and turned back with a yell. He nearly collided with Mr. Towne, who was at that moment coming out of his room, faultlessly attired, even to a heavy walking stick. ...

— The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch - Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys • Laura Lee Hope

... had and she told on him. Old master come down and told my brother to eat the whole dish full. He never hit him or nothin' but just stood there and made him eat 'em. I thought I'd help him out a little and said to my brother, 'Give me some.' Old master just took his walking stick and hit me over the head, and that's the onliest ...

— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves - Arkansas Narratives Part 3 • Works Projects Administration

... I tapped the cab-roof with my walking stick. On cabby looking down at me, I said, 'Did I tell you Charing Cross just now, driver? Ah! well, I made a ...

— With Zola in England • Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

Words linked to "Walking stick" : diapheromera, stick insect, Diapheromera femorata, Phasmatidae, family Phasmatidae, Phasmidae, supplejack, stick, devil's walking stick, family Phasmidae, phasmid, cane, phasmid insect