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单词 nibby staff
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nibby staff
A staff with a hooked end; a crook; a walking stick. Also nibby staff.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > something to lean on > staff to lean on > walking stick
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1812 W. Glass Caledonian Parnassus 53 By help o' their nibbies they fittet it weel.
a1871 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 260 Leaning on her nibby staff (a fine hazel, cut and polished from the Drumlanrig woods..).
1886 J. Russell Reminisc. Yarrow vi. 170 Two or three shepherds..had to use their nibbies unmercifully.
1913 J. Byers Hamely Musings 151 Rax doon his weel-worn hazel nibbie.
1947 P. Newton Wayleggo 86 By dint of much labour, not to mention the ruining of several nibbies (mustering sticks) they finally chipped a hole in ice.
1972 J. Ross Select. Caithness Dial. Words in D. Omand Caithness Bk. 252 Nibbie, crook with a hooked head.
1990 J. E. Martin Forgotten Worker 63 The mustering stick, known as a ‘hillstick’ or ‘nibbie’, was usually made from manuka and had a metal ferrule.
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