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swordsticks

swordsticks is the plural of swordstick.

Meaning of swordstick

Noun

swordstick (plural swordsticks)

  1. A cane incorporating a concealed blade.
    • In Gormenghast Swelter's kitchen boy Steerpike also ends his murderous life, pierced by a knife, in the temporary waters of the flooded castle. Steerpike can be understood as an imitator of his former kitchen master Swelter, his slim swordstick a thin copy of Swelter's cleaver.2005, Alice Mills, Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake, page 82

Questions about swordsticks

What is swordsticks the plural of?
Swordsticks is the plural of swordstick.

Words near swordsticks in the dictionary

  1. swordsperson
  2. swordspersons
  3. swordster
  4. swordsters
  5. swordstick
  6. swordsticks
  7. swordstress
  8. swordstresses
  9. swordswoman
  10. swordswomanship
  11. swordswomen

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