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n. A cane incorporating a concealed blade.
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A swordstick or cane-sword is a cane incorporating a concealed blade. The term is typically used to describe European weapons from around the 18th century, but similar devices have been used throughout history, notably the Roman dolon, the Japanese shikomizue and the Indian gupti.
Usage examples of "swordstick".
Doc was hopping around, crunching the cockroaches beneath his boots, flailing at others with his swordstick, muttering to himself under his breath, trying to get near enough to Lori to help her, as well.
Doc asked, wiping the blade of his swordstick on the rags of the nearest of the stickies, then sheathing it once more.
Closing the swordstick and twisting the handle to lock it tight, his face softened.
Doc rumbled, pretending to lean heavily on his swordstick as if he were old and weak.
The swordstick was in his hands, but the blade still nestled in its ebony sheath.
Doc said, gesturing with his swordstick at a table laden with clothing and backpacks.
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.
A fortnight later a bank manager was stabbed to death with a swordstick in that very part of the Bois.
Melrose pulled the swordstick from her back and let it clatter to the floor.
It was certainly a swordstick, because it rattled when it hit the pavement, and it did so now as he primly picked his way through the old targets and straw debris.
Enderby went out into the cold and walked carefully, leaning on his swordstick, towards Broadway.
Like a homer he tapped his way with his swordstick through the dirty cold and student knots to a building named for the inventor of a variety of canned soups, Warhall or somebody.
He put on the sculpted overcoat and his beret and, swordstick pathetic in his feeble grip, went out.
In any case we wanted to find out if he had actually picked up the swordstick in the grounds of the Cypresses, or if he had had it with him when he went in there.
Swinging around to watch, Lieutenant Koudelka accidently pressed the release of his swordstick, and the cover shot off into the bushes.