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- noun Alternative form of
walking stick .
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Examples
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He was described by Rory as a "walkingstick" -- slender, but very "knobby" -- with a pair of mustaches and an eye-glass.
Sketches — Complete Robert Seymour 1818
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He was described by Rory as a "walkingstick" -- slender, but very "knobby" -- with a pair of mustaches and an eye-glass.
Sketches — Volume 05 Robert Seymour 1818
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Red-twig dogwood and Harry Lauder's walkingstick Corylus avellana 'Contorta' branches add structure and interest to bouquets.
Say it with your own arrangement - or cutting garden - of flowers Joel M. Lerner 2011
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I walk around using a walkingstick (I walk short distances unaided).
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Before he got to Bramley a specious byway snapped him up, ran with him for half a mile or more, and dropped him as a terrier drops a walkingstick, upon the Portsmouth again, a couple of miles from Godalming.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006
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An impulse seized me, I put down my walkingstick and began picking up pieces of wood, flinging them into the wagon.
A Far Country — Volume 3 Winston Churchill 1909
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An impulse seized me, I put down my walkingstick and began picking up pieces of wood, flinging them into the wagon.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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The Caliph Omars walkingstick struck more terror into those who saw it than another mans sword.
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An impulse seized me, I put down my walkingstick and began picking up pieces of wood, flinging them into the wagon.
A Far Country — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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A walking stick is a stick that walks, and the phrase might occur as a metaphorical description of a stiffly behaved person: a walking-stick or walkingstick is a stick for walking; the difference may sometimes be important, and consistency may be held to require that all compounds with gerunds should be hyphened or made into single words.
Hyphens. 1908
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