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walkingstick

walkingstick is the alternative form 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 walkingstick

pluralwalkingsticks

Questions about walkingstick

What is walkingstick the alternative form of?
Walkingstick is the alternative form of walking stick.

Words near walkingstick in the dictionary

  1. walking-about money
  2. walking-around money
  3. walking-stick
  4. walking-sticks
  5. walkings
  6. walkingstick
  7. walkingsticks
  8. Walkington
  9. walkingway
  10. walkingways
  11. Walkins

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