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Walking Stick

Definitions: Walking Stick

Walking Stick

Noun

1. A stick carried in the hand for support in walking.

2. Any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Walking Stick

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Dream Interpretation

To see a walking stick in a dream, foretells you will enter into contracts without proper deliberation, and will consequently suffer reverses. If you use one in walking, you will be dependent upon the advice of others. To admire handsome ones, you will entrust your interest to others, but they will be faithful. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

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Synonyms: Walking Stick

Synonyms: stick insect (n), walkingstick (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Walking Stick

English words defined with "walking stick": Cicisbeodevil's walking stickshooting stick, Stick, supplejack, Supple-jack. (references)
Specialty definitions using "walking stick": Blindman's LanternWalking Stick. (references)

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Modern Usage: Walking Stick

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Movie/TV Titles

The Walking Stick (1970)

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Commercial Usage: Walking Stick

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Books

  • Mr. Blake's Walking Stick (The Works Of Edward Eggleston - 12 Volumes) (reference)

  • The Talking Walking Stick (reference)

  • Walking Stick (reference)

  • Walking Stick (Bug Books) (reference)

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Image Slideshow: Walking Stick

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Photo Album: Walking Stick

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Man in tricorn hat, long coat, and walking stick.Credit: Library of Congress.

William Davidge as Sir Anthony Absolute in The Rivals, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, holding hat and walking stick.Credit: Library of Congress.

Henry Inman with walking stick, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to the right, seated, with a book on a small table covered with a tablecloth showing lyre ornament.Credit: Library of Congress.

Albert Gallatin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, with walking stick.Credit: Library of Congress.

Portrait of Padraic Colum, holding walking stick.Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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Expressions: Walking Stick

Expressions using "walking stick": devil's walking stick whirl a walking stick. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Walking Stick

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  walking stick

1,187

  walking stick insect

61

  cane and walking stick

59

  carved walking stick

29

  irish walking stick

15

  carving walking stick

12

  walking stick golf course

8

  hand carved walking stick

7

  blackthorn walking stick

7

  antique walking stick

6

  custom walking stick

6

  walking stick supply

5

  folding walking stick

5

  wholesale walking stick

4

  wooden walking stick

3

  walking stick with compass

3

  irish blackthorn walking stick

2

  unique walking stick

2
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Modern Translations: Walking Stick

Language Translations for "walking stick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shkop (bat, baton, Billy, cane, cudgel, pointer, pole, rod, roost, staff, stick, truncheon), bastun (cane, stick, swagger cane). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏عصا المشي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

бастун (cane, stick). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vycházková hùl, hùlka (cane, wand). (various references)

   

Danish

  

stok (picket, stake), spadserestok (walking-stick). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

wandelstok (walking-stick). (various references)

   

French

  

canne d'un vieillard, canne main. (various references)

   

German

  

Spazierstock (cane). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μπαστούνι (cane, rattan). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מקל "ליכ" (cane). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sétapálca (swagger-cane, swagger-stick). (various references)

   

Italian

  

bastone da passeggio. (various references)

   

Manx

  

maidjey shooyl, bock Yuan Fannee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alkingway ickstay

   

Portuguese

  

bengala (baton, Bengal, cane, stick, walking-stick). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

baston pentru plimbare, baston (bat, baton, cane, cudgel, Mace, rod, staff, stave, stick). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

трость (cane, walking-stick). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

štap za šetnju. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

bastón (backsword, baton, cane, singlestick, staff, stick). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

promenadkäpp. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

baston (rod, staff, stick). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

палиця (bat, cane, club, staff, stick, warder). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

llawffon (baton). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Walking Stick

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

baculis, baculo, baculos, baculum, baculum, baculus, baculus. (various references)

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Anagrams: Walking Stick

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: walkingstick.

Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-i-k-k-l-n-s-t-w"

-3 letters: stickling, tacklings.

-4 letters: castling, catlings, kiltings, kitlings, lickings, sickling, slacking, slicking, stacking, stalking, sticking, tackling, tailings, talcking, talkings, tickings, tickling, waisting, waitings, walkings, wickings, witlings.

-5 letters: actings, anticks, calking, calkins, casking, casting, catkins, catling, catlins, clawing, glaikit, incisal, intagli, italics, kainits, kicking, kilting, kitling, lacings, lacking, lakings, lasting, lawings, licking, likings, listing, nilgais.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-i-k-k-l-n-s-t-w"
 

+1 letter: walkingsticks.

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Alternative Orthography: Walking Stick


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 61 6C 6B 69 6E 67      53 74 69 63 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01100001 01101100 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01010011 01110100 01101001 01100011 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#97 &#108 &#107 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#83 &#116 &#105 &#99 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0061 006C 006B 0069 006E 0067      0053 0074 0069 0063 006B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5767787775807325386756977

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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