Definition of "walking-staff" [walking-staff]

• A staff used for assistance in walking, especially such a staff longer than the ordinary walking-stick or -cane. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Then she picked up her walking-staff, filled her pockets with charged keystones, and left their lodging."
• "As he threaded the streets he was met by an old man age-decrepit, whose beard flowed down upon his breast and forked in twain; 380 he bore a walking-staff in his hand and was richly clad, with a great red turband on his head."
• "He carried a badly made longbow for a walking-staff, and had a quiver of white-feathered arrows slung at his side, the kind of weapons a farmer might legally carry on the road against bandits and brigands."