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walking-stick

walking-stick is the alternative spelling of walking stick.

Meaning of walking stick

Noun

walking stick (plural walking sticks)

  1. A tool, such as a cane, used to ease pressure on the legs, and to aid stability, when walking.
    • It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park...1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 6
  2. A stick insect (order Phasmida).
    Synonyms:
    alpenstock, cane, staff
  3. (slang) A playing card with the rank of seven.

Forms of walking-stick

pluralwalking-sticks

Questions about walking-stick

What is walking-stick the alternative spelling of?
Walking-stick is the alternative spelling of walking stick.

Words near walking-stick in the dictionary

  1. walking wickets
  2. walking with
  3. walking wounded
  4. walking-about money
  5. walking-around money
  6. walking-stick
  7. walking-sticks
  8. walkings
  9. walkingstick
  10. walkingsticks
  11. Walkington

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