“walking、staff”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

walking-staff

释义

ˈwalking-staff Now rare.
[walking vbl. n.¹]
A staff or long stick which one carries in the hand for support or aid in walking. Also fig.
1546J. Heywood Prov. i. x. (1867) 21 Now I well understand The walkyng staffe hath caught warmth in your hand.1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. iii. 151 Ile giue..My Scepter, for a Palmers walking Staffe.1694Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) III. 365 A person was taken in St. James Park with 2 pistolls laden in his pocket, his walking staffe being a gunn.1726Swift Gulliver ii. i, The farmer..took a piece of a small straw, about the size of a walking-staff.1784Blake Poet. Sk., Song Old Sheph., Virtue is our walking-staff.1846Keightley Notes Virg., Flora 383 It [Ferula communis] is common in Apulia, where the shepherds make walking-staffs of it.1876Rock Textile Fabrics 9 Returning, they brought with them a number of eggs [of silkworms] hidden in their walking-staves.

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