walking stick
noun1
A tool, such as a cane, used to ease pressure on the legs, and to aid stability, when walking.
- It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 6:
2
A stick insect (order Phasmida).
3
Card games, Games Slang A playing card with the rank of seven.
- Synonyms
- alpenstock, cane, staff
- Derived terms
- devil's walking stick, giant walking stick
- Related terms
- 🦯, crutches