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单词 walking stick
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walking stickn.

Brit. /ˈwɔːkɪŋ stɪk/, U.S. /ˈwɔkɪŋ ˌstɪk/, /ˈwɑkɪŋ ˌstɪk/
Forms: see walking n. and stick n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: walking n., stick n.1
Etymology: < walking n. + stick n.1 Compare earlier walking staff n.
1.
a. A stick or short staff used for aid or support when walking.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > stick or cane > [noun]
walking stick1580
cane1590
whangee1776
knobstick1854
the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > something to lean on > staff to lean on > walking stick
staffc725
yardc1000
bat?c1225
rodc1300
handstaffa1425
walking staffc1450
sceptre1526
walking stick1580
stick1620
nibbie1812
baton1860
waddy1974
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Baguette, a white rodde, a walking sticke.
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush v. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Mm2v/2 You may take me in with a walking sticke Even when you please, and hold me with a pack-threed.
1788 T. Barker in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 78 413 No. 21. was about as thick as a walking-stick in 1730.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 95 A tobacconist, who also dealt in walking-sticks, and Sunday newspapers.
1869 A. J. Evans Vashti viii. 103 He seized his hat and walking-stick and quitted the house.
1915 W. P. Livingstone Mary Slessor iv. vi. 216 One man..was dressed in a hat, a loin-cloth, and a walking-stick.
1967 Times 30 Sept. 2/7 Mr. Woods hobbled into the court-room with the help of a white walking stick.
2005 J. E. Prewitt Snake Walkers xxii. 151 An older gentleman with a walking stick, dressed in all black except for a pink hanky in his suit pocket.
b. Chiefly U.S. In full walking stick cholla. A cholla cactus, Opuntia imbricata, of arid regions of North America, the dead stems of which are sometimes made into walking sticks.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > North American
arrowwood1578
white pine1682
wicopy1704
American olive1772
pumpkin pine1809
mountain mahogany1810
redwood1819
western yellow pine1857
western hemlock1867
western red cedar1874
Sitka cedar1875
ponderosa1878
walking stick1910
1886 A. Blanc & Co. Catal. & Hints on Cacti 53/1 O. Arborescens (the Walking Stick or Elk-Horn Cactus). This species, which grows in Colorado and contiguous districts, has a narrow and much-branched stem, which often rises to a considerable height.
1910 Friar Park, Henley, Guide (ed. 3) 184 Walking-stick or Elk-horn (Opuntia arborescens), the woody stems are made into walking-sticks.
1983 Southwestern Naturalist 28 200 Walking stick cholla (Opuntia imbricata) and broom snakeweed are very common in some areas.
1996 Boston Globe (Nexis) 28 July m1 I circled the cactus, a walking stick cholla, and stood on tiptoe to peer into a softball-sized bird's nest cradled in its knobby green arms.
2007 P. Greenwood Beside Rio Hondo 36 In my hand I turn the woody skeleton of the walkingstick cholla, once used for canes, a hollow cylinder with a diamond mesh.
2. Frequently in form walkingstick. Any of various insects of the order Phasmida having elongated bodies resembling twigs or pieces of plant stem. Also walking-stick insect, †walking-stick mantis. Cf. stick insect n. at stick n.1 Compounds 2. Now chiefly U.S.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Phasmida > family Phasmidae
walking stick1760
leaf insect1795
spectre1798
stick insect1826
spectrum1838
phasmid1864
stick bug1868
twig insect1882
witch's horse1894
1760 G. Edwards Gleanings Nat. Hist. II. 168 Fig. 4..represents..the Walking-stick. It is so much like a dry stick, that it is supposed to deceive birds and other animals, that prey upon insects.
1832 W. Fox Let. 28 Sept. in C. Darwin Corr. (1985) I. 266 There is also among them the Walking stick Mantis and a huge Nepa, or nearly allied to it.
1872 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 6) vii. 182 As in the case..of a walking-stick insect (Ceroxylus laceratus).
1885 C. F. Holder Marvels Animal Life 146 The walking-sticks..resembling the twig upon which they rest.
1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses v. 115 Some insects scatter their eggs at random, as does our common walkingstick (Diapheromera), which drops its eggs on the ground.
1974 Brownsville (Texas) Herald 6 Nov. 11 a/3 (heading) Walking stick insect is a whiz at disguise to resemble a twig.
2002 Sci. Amer. Nov. 44/3 The animals look like a bizarre cross between a mantis (order Mantodea) and a walkingstick (order Phasmatodea).

Compounds

C1. Chiefly with the sense ‘made in the form of a walking stick’.
a. General attributive.
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1745 N.Y. Weekly Post-boy 1 July 6/2 Anthony Lamb..Makes and sells all sorts of Mathematical Instruments..as..Walking Stick Spying Glasses.
1828 Gill's Technol. Repository 2 263 He had long since applied a contrivance to a walking-stick telescope, to enable it to answer the purposes of a microscope likewise.
1867 R. Garner Holiday Excursions Naturalist i. 6 One of the party, who had a walking-stick fishrod, caught several brace.
1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 387 Walking Stick Stand.
1907 Gentleman's Mag. July 38 Young gentlemen seated at their ease on patent collapsible walking-stick stools.
1931 R. Campbell Georgiad i. 13 I've seen walking-stick-rifles, and ‘Onoto’-guns.
1979 Early Music 7 524/2 The cost of combining one's country walks with fiddling..seems to have escalated considerably, with a walking-stick violin of the mid-19th century realizing £1,100.
1986 Target Gun Aug. 49/2 Military weapons..will be banned..as will walking stick shotguns.
b.
walking-stick gun n. now rare.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > other small arms
long gun1530
currier1558
crabut1626
long arm1675
bullet-guna1701
hand cannon1752
wall-gun1812
walking-stick gun1823
shoulder gun1824
safety gun1825
gas gun1856
self-cocker1857
bolt action1871
snap action gun1875
saddle gun1886
multibarrel1899
dane gun1900
clip-loader1901
pump-action1923
sleeve gun1944
laser gun1961
phaser1966
magnum1970
1823 Patent granted to J. Day in London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. (1824) 7 290 The patentee has adapted his invention to a walking-stick-gun; a section of which is shewn in Plate XV. Fig. 7, (the parts being as situate before cocking).
1929 M. W. Hoper tr. W. G. N. van der Sleen 4 Months' Camping Himalayas ii. i. 158 I managed to get hold of a superb specimen by a shot in the eye from my walking-stick gun at 60 yards.
C2.
walking-stick palm n. an Australian palm, Linospadix monostachya, the stem of which is sometimes used for making walking sticks.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > other palms
prickly palm1666
thorny palm1666
palm1681
sagwire1681
wine-palm1681
prickle-palm1684
prickly pole1696
brab1698
palmyra1698
thatch-tree1756
double coconut1775
nibong1779
nipa1779
rhapis1789
cocorite1796
groo-groo1796
borassus1798
cohune1805
traveller's tree1809
tucum1810
gomuti1811
taliera1814
lontar1820
salak1820
ground-rattan1823
geonoma1824
tucuma1824
nikau1827
wax-palm1830
murumuru1834
piassava1835
traveller's palm1850
bangalow1851
inajá palm1853
jacitara1853
peach palm1853
pupunha palm1853
jipijapa1858
urucuri1860
climbing palm1863
sea-apple1864
Alexandra palm1865
coquito1866
thatch1866
thatch-palm1866
açai1868
walking-stick palm1869
kentia1870
toquilla1877
Guadalupe palm1895
tortoiseshell palm1902
pimpler1909
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Australasian
tallow-tree1704
rata1773
rosewood1779
red mahogany1798
ironbark1799
wild orange1802
red gum1803
rewarewa1817
red cedar1818
black-butted gum1820
Huon pine1820
miro1820
oak1821
horoeka1831
hinau1832
maire1832
totara1832
blackbutt1833
marri1833
raspberry jam tree1833
kohekohe1835
puriri1835
tawa1839
hickory1840
whau1840
pukatea1841
titoki1842
butterbush1843
iron gum1844
York gum1846
mangeao1848
myall1848
ironheart1859
lilly-pilly1860
belah1862
flindosa1862
jarrah1866
silky oak1866
teak of New South Wales1866
Tolosa-wood1866
turmeric-tree1866
walking-stick palm1869
tooart1870
queenwood1873
tarairi1873
boree1878
yate1880
axe-breaker1884
bangalay1884
coachwood1884
cudgerie1884
feather-wood1884
forest mahogany1884
maiden's blush1884
swamp mahogany1884
tallow-wood1884
teak of New Zealand1884
wandoo1884
heartwood1885
ivorywood1887
Jimmy Low1887
Burdekin plum1889
corkwood1889
pigeon-berry ash1889
red beech1889
silver beech1889
turnip-wood1891
black bean1895
red bean1895
pinkwood1898
poplar1898
rose mahogany1898
quandong1908
lancewood1910
New Zealand honeysuckle1910
Queensland walnut1919
mahogany gum1944
Australian mahogany1948
1869 M. Guilfoyle in R. T. M. Pescott W. R. Guilfoyle (1974) 46 Chamaedon or walking stick palm is very plentiful.
1959 M. Raymond Smiley roams Road 196 Smiley plunged on..through the walking-stick palms and tree ferns and bootlace trees.
2002 J. Sparrow Subtropical Plants 80/2 This area is rich in other species, including the intriguing small Linospadix monostachya, walking-stick palm, found in lower Queensland and northern NSW.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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