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/wˈɔkɪŋ stɪk/ Listen

Walking stick

noun

A stick carried in the hand for support in walking.

Any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies. Synonyms: stick insect, walkingstick.

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"Walking stick" Quotes from Famous Books

... ordinary straight fair hair. But he is a prince and knows it. For the sake of having his picture painted, he poses with an air of conscious dignity beyond his years. He sweeps his cloak around him like any grown-up cavalier, and holds out a plumed hat and walking stick in a lordly fashion. The child is consciously acting the part of a grown-up person, which only emphasizes his childhood. But the air of refinement and distinction in the picture comes straight from Van Dyck. As you look at the portraits ...

— The Book of Art for Young People • Agnes Conway

... declaration he took his hat and walking stick and started for the telegraph station, leaving Patsy and her father to canvass the ...

— Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad • Edith Van Dyne

... his shoes, he looked around him, and selected a stout sapling from among the undergrowth that covered the bank of the stream. Taking from his pocket a huge clasp-knife, he cut off the length of an ordinary walking stick and trimmed it. The result was an ugly-looking bludgeon, a dangerous weapon when in the grasp ...

— The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and - Selected Essays • Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Words linked to "Walking stick" : Diapheromera femorata, cane, Phasmidae, phasmid, diapheromera, phasmid insect, family Phasmatidae, Phasmatidae, stick, supplejack, family Phasmidae