baculine

“He went on playing for a delightful half-hour; (how swiftly, in the blessed amusement, it passed away!) he reduced several of the sticksters to bankruptcy by his baculine skill; he returned to the carriage laden with jacks, wooden apples and soldiers, enough to amuse all the nurseries in Pimlico.”

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851

“The baculine method was a quite common mode of argument in those days.”

The Virginians

“To crack a _baculine_ joke over their sconces would involve an expense which the worthy philosophers were not worth.”

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)