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swordstick

/ ˈsɔːdˌstɪk /

noun

  1. a hollow walking stick containing a short sword or dagger
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

When, enveloped in a vast cloak and toying with a swordstick, he sat his 300 pounds down to dream on a wayside bench, passers-by "either take me for the village idiot or for one of Harrod's delivery vans."

At novel's start, Mac still has his gang, though none but his intimate henchmen know it, and while he carries a swordstick cane, he is prudent enough never to use it.

He himself possessed a very murderous-looking swordstick which he had once bought in Paris.

I should have preferred the concussor, which I now handled with skill, but it was hardly a portable tool, and my choice ultimately fell on a very fine swordstick, supplemented by a knuckle-duster which had been bequeathed to me by one of my clients after trial on my own countenance.

At that moment a youngish man came up behind him, drew the blade from a swordstick, and stabbed him half a dozen times through and through. 

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