swordstick
nounEtymology From sword + stick.
1
A cane incorporating a concealed blade.
- In Gormenghast Swelter's kitchen boy Steerpike also ends his murderous life, pierced by a knife, in the temporary waters of the flooded castle. Steerpike can be understood as an imitator of his former kitchen master Swelter, his slim swordstick a thin copy of Swelter's cleaver.2005, Alice Mills, Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake, page 82: