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  • noun Alternative spelling of walking stick.

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Examples

  • In plain English — I left my favourite walking-stick at your house; take care of it for me; and command the services of

    Letter 222 2009

  • In the sale, two walking-stick guns made of cane and horn are estimated together at £150-£250.

    The Fire Power of Pistols Margaret Studer 2011

  • I had a real horrorshow smeck at that, viddying that she had in her veiny rooker a crappy wood walking-stick which she raised at me threatening.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • Among many bizarre comic vignettes, the cerebral Sigmund Freud flaps his arms “like an old crow” and hysterically tries to analyze what is happening to him as “his doodly came alive and stuck out as though he had a walking-stick in his trousers.”

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • Everyone carried a walking-stick crafted of bamboo with handles hand carved into the head of some unidentifiable animal.

    My first pilgrimage: the Virgin "Rosario de Talpa", Jalisco. 2007

  • Everyone carried a walking-stick crafted of bamboo with handles hand carved into the head of some unidentifiable animal.

    My first pilgrimage: the Virgin "Rosario de Talpa", Jalisco. 2007

  • There is the sound and look of fear there in the eyes and words of another silver haired woman, like me, who stopped me one day to ask if my walking-stick (cane) was due to knee or hip replacement surgery, which thankfully it is not.

    The politicians have forgotten. The people have not 2009

  • And he dropped onto the table the head and part of the shaft of a charred walking-stick.

    Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

  • There is the sound and look of fear there in the eyes and words of another silver haired woman, like me, who stopped me one day to ask if my walking-stick (cane) was due to knee or hip replacement surgery, which thankfully it is not.

    The politicians have forgotten. The people have not 2009

  • There is the sound and look of fear there in the eyes and words of another silver haired woman, like me, who stopped me one day to ask if my walking-stick (cane) was due to knee or hip replacement surgery, which thankfully it is not.

    Printing: The politicians have forgotten. The people have not 2009

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