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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A pork-butcher; a pig-killer.
  2. n. A boar-hunter.
  3. n. A long-bladed pocket-knife.
  4. n. A horse trained to the sport of pigsticking.

Examples

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

    Burmese Days

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

    Simon & Schuster: Sir Apropos of Nothing

  • “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

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

    Lonesome Dove

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

    Army Rumour Service

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

    Simon & Schuster: The Convict and Other Stories

  • “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

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

    Wizard and Glass

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

    Simon & Schuster: Lonesome Dove

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  • bilby Topi means hat in Malay. Aug 4, 2011

  • stevechasmar The "pigsticker topi" mentioned in Orwell's "Burmese Days" (quoted above) was a type of pith helmet. Aug 4, 2011

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