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walking stick

Noun

Meaning

A tool, such as a cane, used to ease pressure on the legs, and to aid stability, when walking.

A stick insect (order Phasmida).

(card games, slang) A playing card with the rank of seven.

walking-stick (plural walking-sticks)

Alternative spelling of walking stick

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walking-stick

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When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind. Ludwig Wittgenstein

The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure. Thorstein Veblen

It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick. Adolphe Menjou

When you have no companion, look to your walking stick. Albanian Proverb

A blind person does not forget his walking stick. Swahili Proverb

A fully grown up tree cannot be bent into a walking stick. African Proverb

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