walking stick
walking stick noun: a tool, such as a cane, used to ease pressure on the legs, and to aid stability, when walking.
Noun
walking stick (plural walking sticks)
- 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
- A stick insect (order Phasmida).
- Synonyms:
- alpenstock, cane, staff
- A playing card with the rank of seven.
walking stick meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
walking stick in Hindi
- cane
- छड़ी chaṛī
walking stick in Tamil
- கைத்தடி, சோட்டத்தடி, பற்றுக்கோல், தடிக்கம்பு, பற்றக்கோடு, யட்டி
walking stick in Urdu
- cane
- چَھڑی chaṛī, عَصا 'asā
walking stick in Bengali
- cane
- ছড়ি choṛi
More languagesFewer languages
- walking stick in Kannada
- ಕೆಯ್ಕೋಲ್, ಕೆಯ್ಕೋಲು, ಕಯ್ಕೋಲ್, ಕಯ್ಕೋಲು
- walking stick in Punjabi
- ਤੁਰਨ ਸਟਿੱਕ turan saṭikka
- walking stick in Gujarati
- લાકડી lākḍī
- walking stick in Pashto
- امسا amsā, لکړه lakáṛa
- walking stick in Tagalog
- tungkod
- walking stick in Arabic
- عَصَايَة ʕaṣāya, خَيْزُرَانَة ḵayzurāna, عُكَّاز ʕukkāz, عَصَا الْمَشْي ʕaṣā l-mašy
- walking stick in Malay
- tongkat kaki
- walking stick in Indonesian
- tongkat jalan
- walking stick in Thai
- ไม้เท้า mái-táao, ตะพด dtà-pót
- walking stick in Vietnamese
- ba toong, gậy chống, gậy
- walking stick in Myanmar
- လက်ကိုင်တုတ် lakkuingtut
Synonyms of walking stick
Forms of walking stick
| plural | walking sticks |
|---|---|
| alternative form | walking-stick |
| alternative form | walkingstick |
Words formed from walking stick
Questions about walking stick
- What does walking stick mean?
- Walking stick means a tool, such as a cane, used to ease pressure on the legs, and to aid stability, when walking.
- What is walking stick in Hindi?
- Walking stick in Hindi is छड़ी (chaṛī). See Walking stick meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is walking stick?
- Walking stick is a noun.
- What is the plural of walking stick?
- The plural of walking stick is walking sticks.
Words near walking stick in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: walking stick (page history and authors); walking stick (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); walking stick (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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