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walking stick
noun
1
: a straight rod or stick (as of wood or aluminum) that is used to provide stability in walking or hiking
2
: stick insect
especially
: one (Diapheromera femorata) of the U.S. and Canada
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Five months after Lincoln’s assassination, in a moving scene, Douglass opens a package from former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln to find the president’s walking stick.
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Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2024
My kids, ages five and 10, darted ahead with the agility of gazelles while my mom cautiously relied on her walking stick and my dad’s arm to guide her every step.
—Christine Chitnis, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2024
The most recent shows the interior entryway of that house; an umbrella jar holds several walking sticks and two ancient Inuit harpoons with whale-bone barbs; on the wall above them hangs a gleaming nineteenth-century harpoon gun.
—Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024
Registration is required for this walking stick workshop at the Coneflower shelter in the Prairie View picnic area.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2024
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Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2024
My kids, ages five and 10, darted ahead with the agility of gazelles while my mom cautiously relied on her walking stick and my dad’s arm to guide her every step.
—Christine Chitnis, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2024
The most recent shows the interior entryway of that house; an umbrella jar holds several walking sticks and two ancient Inuit harpoons with whale-bone barbs; on the wall above them hangs a gleaming nineteenth-century harpoon gun.
—Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024
Registration is required for this walking stick workshop at the Coneflower shelter in the Prairie View picnic area.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2024
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“Walking stick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/walking%20stick. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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