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.

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. Mm2^v/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.

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).

单词	walking stick
释义	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. ΘΚΠ 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. Mm2^v/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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1580
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