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Answer for the clue "Prop for a promenade ", 12 letters:
walkingstick

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Word definitions for walkingstick in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies [syn: walking stick , stick insect ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of walking stick English)

Usage examples of walkingstick.

For this fool of a young man thought that she and Helen and Tibby had been playing the confidence trick on him, and that if he gave his address they would break into his rooms some midnight or other and steal his walkingstick too.

He leaned heavily on Kethra and a walkingstick, and sat down immediately, but it was already obvious that despite his physical weakness there was new life in his eyes, and new hope in his spirit.

CHAPTER XIX A DIFFICULT POSITION And now Uncle John, finding himself left alone, took his walkingstick and started out to explore the valley.

Though he had no apparent limp, he affected a walkingstick as odd as the rest of his get-up: a three-foot post of white ash, somewhat stouter than a pick-shaft, it had what appeared to be folding lenses and other gadgetry attached here and there along its length, which was adorned with rude carvings (both intaglio and low-relief) of winged lingams, shelah-na-gigs, buckhorns, and domestic bunch-grapes.