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swordstick

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Etymology

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From sword +‎ stick.

Noun

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swordstick (plural swordsticks)

  1. A cane incorporating a concealed blade.
    • 2005, Alice Mills, Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake, page 82:
      In Gormenghast Swelter's kitchen boy Steerpike also ends his murderous life, pierced by a knife, in the temporary waters of the flooded castle. Steerpike can be understood as an imitator of his former kitchen master Swelter, his slim swordstick a thin copy of Swelter's cleaver.