walking stick

1. A cane or staff used as an aid in walking.

2. Any of numerous slow-moving phasmid insects, chiefly of the family Phasmatidae, having a slender brown or green body that resembles a stick or twig. Also called stick insect.

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walking stick

walkingstick

1. (Medicine) a stick or cane carried in the hand to assist walking

2. (Animals) the usual US name for stick insect

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

walk′ing stick`

1. a stick held in the hand and used to help support oneself while walking.

2. Also, walk′ing•stick`. Also called stick insect. any of several insects of the family Phasmatidae, having a long, slender, twiglike body.

[1570–80]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	walking stick - a stick carried in the hand for support in walking cane - a stick that people can lean on to help them walk stick - an implement consisting of a length of wood; "he collected dry sticks for a campfire"; "the kid had a candied apple on a stick" supplejack - walking stick made from the wood of an American tropical vine
	2.	walking stick - any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies stick insect, walkingstick phasmid, phasmid insect - large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants; walking sticks and leaf insects family Phasmatidae, family Phasmidae, Phasmatidae, Phasmidae - stick insects diapheromera, Diapheromera femorata - a variety of stick insect

walking stick

noun

A fairly long straight piece of solid material used especially as a support in walking:

cane, staff, stave, stick.

Translations

عَصَا الـمَشْي

vycházková hůl

spadserestok

Spazierstock

μπαστούνι

bastón cayado báculo

چوبدست

kävelykeppi

canne staff

מקל הליכה

štap za hodanje

botsáskasétabotsétapálca

bastone bastone da passeggio

ステッキナナフシ杖

지팡이

baculum

трость палочник посох клюка

sprehajalna palica

promenadkäpp

ไม้เท้า

baston

gậy chống

手杖

walking stick

n → bastone m da passeggio

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

walking stick

→ عَصَا الـمَشْي vycházková hůl spadserestok Spazierstock μπαστούνι bastón, cayado kävelykeppi canne štap za hodanje bastone da passeggio ステッキ 지팡이 wandelstok spaserstokk laska bengala трость promenadkäpp ไม้เท้า baston gậy chống 手杖

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He was so very tall that he carried a pine tree, which was eight feet through the butt, for a walking stick. It took a far-sighted Pygmy, I can assure you, to discern his summit without the help of a telescope; and sometimes, in misty weather, they could not see his upper half, but only his long legs, which seemed to be striding about by themselves.

His pine-tree walking stick lay on the ground, close by his side.

Get up this minute, and take your pine-tree walking stick in your hand.

There he was, with the sun flaming on his golden helmet, and flashing from his polished breastplate; he had a sword by his side, and a lion's skin over his back, and on his right shoulder he carried a club, which looked bulkier and heavier than the pine-tree walking stick of Antaeus.

No sooner did he set eyes on the stranger, than, leaping on his feet, and seizing his walking stick, he strode a mile or two to meet him; all the while brandishing the sturdy pine tree, so that it whistled through the air.

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Then something resembling a little grey snake, about the thickness of a walking stick, coiled up out of the writhing middle, and wriggled in the air towards me--and then another.

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Also he had a long yellow mustache that dropped down over his teeth, and always carried a heavy, wicked-looking walking stick in his hand.

The son had the heavy walking stick in his hand and sat near the door.

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Finding they were determined to go, the Winkies gave Toto and the Lion each a golden collar; and to Dorothy they presented a beautiful bracelet studded with diamonds; and to the Scarecrow they gave a gold-headed walking stick, to keep him from stumbling; and to the Tin Woodman they offered a silver oil-can, inlaid with gold and set with precious jewels.

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Yet the youth smiled, for he saw that the world was a world for him, though many discovered it to be made of oaths and walking sticks. He had rid himself of the red sickness of battle.

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The walking stick was consigned to Guernsey's by the Williams family in Milford, Connecticut.

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But one sinister weapon stood out from the crowd - a late 19th century walking stick which had been converted into a gun.

WALKING STICK-UP; sinister walking stick gun handed in to police 'could have been used by real peaky blinders'