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walking stick

noun

  1. short staff used for support when walking
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. 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.

  2. A stick insect (order Phasmida).
  3. A playing card with the rank of seven.