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fire-stick

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fire-stick (plural fire-sticks)

A mid-19th Century British cavalry fire-stick.
  1. A gun or cannon, especially a rifle. Originally used by or ascribed to members of non-European cultures or anthropomorphized animals describing firearms.
    A troop of soldiers, armed with fire-sticks, entered the valley.
    I knocked the man down, and he ran into the woods, leaving his fire-stick on the ground.
    • 1904, W.A. Fraser, “The Narrative of Buffalo and Bison”, in Metropolitan, volume 20, number 11, pages 195–196:
      "Arna means by the fire-stick a gun," explained Sa'-zada.
  2. Alternative form of firestick

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