Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A horse trained to the sport of pigsticking.
  • noun A pork-butcher; a pig-killer.
  • noun A boar-hunter.
  • noun A long-bladed pocket-knife.

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Examples

  • He was dressed in khaki pagri-cloth shirt, drill shorts and a pigsticker topi.

    Burmese Days 2002

  • I threw myself across the floor, skidding on my stomach, and grabbed the fallen pigsticker.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • I threw myself across the floor, skidding on my stomach, and grabbed the fallen pigsticker.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • I threw myself across the floor, skidding on my stomach, and grabbed the fallen pigsticker.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • The kid with the doctored stick was tapping it impatiently on the pavement while his buddy swung the pigsticker through the snowy night in one arc parallel to her breasts, a second parallel to her groin.

    Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992

  • You'll probably get scalped before it's all over, or hung, or a Mexican will get you with a pigsticker.

    Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

  • Or he's practicing his sex/war face for when he's in and doing pigsticker bayonet training lol

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • “That pigsticker won’t do you no good now, boy,” the Texas soldier said, his head just below the level of the track.

    The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010

  • This isn’t ‘ha ha, look at the crazy old gent with the pigsticker’, this guy could have killed someone.

    The RCMP Versus 82-Year-Old Patient « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

  • "Sonny, unless you're a barber, I think you'd better put that pigsticker down.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

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  • The "pigsticker topi" mentioned in Orwell's "Burmese Days" (quoted above) was a type of pith helmet.

    August 4, 2011

  • Topi means hat in Malay.

    August 4, 2011