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walking sticks

walking sticks is the plural 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.

Questions about walking sticks

What is walking sticks the plural of?
Walking sticks is the plural of walking stick.

Words near walking sticks in the dictionary

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  3. walking Spanish
  4. walking spleenwort
  5. walking stick
  6. walking sticks
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  8. walking streets
  9. walking taco
  10. walking tacos
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