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ˈwalking-staff Now rare. [walking vbl. n.1] A staff or long stick which one carries in the hand for support or aid in walking. Also fig.
1546J. Heywood Prov. i. x. (1867) 21 Now I well understand The walkyng staffe hath caught warmth in your hand. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. iii. 151 Ile giue..My Scepter, for a Palmers walking Staffe. 1694Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) III. 365 A person was taken in St. James Park with 2 pistolls laden in his pocket, his walking staffe being a gunn. 1726Swift Gulliver ii. i, The farmer..took a piece of a small straw, about the size of a walking-staff. 1784Blake Poet. Sk., Song Old Sheph., Virtue is our walking-staff. 1846Keightley Notes Virg., Flora 383 It [Ferula communis] is common in Apulia, where the shepherds make walking-staffs of it. 1876Rock Textile Fabrics 9 Returning, they brought with them a number of eggs [of silkworms] hidden in their walking-staves. |