locust stick

noun

noun

US, Obsolete A type of truncheon formerly used by the New York City police force.

People avoided places where at any moment the festivities might be marred by an inrush of large men in blue uniforms armed with locust-sticks.1909 October – 1910 February, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “The Highfield”, in Psmith Journalist, London: A[dam] & C[harles] Black, […], published October 1923, →OCLC, page 95:

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