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alpenstock
[ al-puhn-stok ]
noun
- a strong staff with an iron point, used by mountain climbers.
alpenstock
/ ˈælpənˌstɒk /
noun
- an early form of ice axe, consisting of a stout stick with an iron tip and sometimes having a pick and adze at the head, formerly used by mountain climbers
Word History and Origins
Origin of alpenstock1
Word History and Origins
Origin of alpenstock1
Example Sentences
Says the caption, “They wear hats, bloomers, hiking boots and gauntlet gloves, and hold alpenstocks.”
Brooks himself reads as the opposite of acrophobic: scaling the icy pinnacles of Hollywood without anything more than a pang of self-doubt, using humor as his alpenstock.
Piled in a corner, his hiking gear—boots, alpenstock, leather knapsack.
Following closely behind them perhaps there would have strode a professional pilgrim, supporting himself on a stout knobbed staff shod like an alpenstock and weighed down with blessed medals, relics, shells, vernicles and so forth.
But the rest shout “Excelsior,” take a firmer grasp of alpenstock, stamp feet more vehemently into the snow, and with dogged perseverance move step by step up the final height.
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