the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > strike with an object > with a stick or pole (3)
To drive off or beat with a staff or stave; esp. in to stave off, to beat off (a dog in Bear- or Bull- baiting; also transferred a human…
transitive. To strike or poke with a pole.
transitive. slang. To give (a person) the cane; to cane. Now rare.