1790 J. Adams in 22 May 461/1 What is it that bewitches mankind to marks and signs?.. a white hickory stick?
1900 A. M. Benson in (Commandery State Mass.) 127 We were armed with hickory sticks.
1974 J. D. MacDonald (1975) iv. 45 They walloped the back of his head with a hickory stick.