Definition of "walking stick" []

• A cane or staff used as an aid in walking. (noun)
• A stick insect, especially a widely distributed North American species (Diapheromera femorata) that is brown to greenish and usually inhabits deciduous trees. (noun)

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• "Before we rose to go, Gulbarchyn shyly presented me with a walking stick of wild plum she had been whittling by the fireside, and the little family invited us to supper with them in the camp next day."
• "As we bent down the branches and stripped them of plums, I thought of our family rosehip-and blackberry-picking expeditions in the Chilterns, of how my father would use the crook of his walking stick to bend down the higher branches, and the musical sound of the postbox-red rosehips tumbling into a saucepan."
• "After a few moments, Tarak emerged, his carrypack secure, walking stick in hand."