piggy-stickn.
/ˈpɪɡɪstɪk/, U.S. /ˈpɪɡiˌstɪk/ rare.
1. Military slang. The wooden handle of a soldier's entrenching tool.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > [noun] > entrenching tools
banjo1918
trench-plough1918
piggy-stick1930
1930 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Songs & Slang Brit. Soldier: 1914–1918 149 Piggy-stick, the wooden helve for the entrenching tool which the infantryman carried next his bayonet... From a child's game, tip-cat.
2. English regional (northern). = piggy n.1 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > tip-cat > [noun] > equipment
trippetc1440
cat1598
tipcat1676
piggy1862
piggy-stick1968
1968 P. Jennings Living Village 179 The game which we knew in Coventry as tip-cap..was called in Yorkshire Knur and spel, in Cumberland piggy-stick.
2002 LifeTimes Link July–Dec. 15/1 The men used to make their own piggy sticks out of broken coupling poles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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