walking stick (plural walking sticks)

1. A tool#Noun|tool, such as a cane#Noun|cane, used to ease pressure#Noun|pressure on the leg#Noun|legs, and to aid#Verb|aid stability, when walk#Verb|walking.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗, page 6 ↗:

     It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.

2. A stick insect (order Phasmida).
3. (card games, slang) A playing card with the rank#Noun|rank of seven.

• alpenstock
• cane
• staff

• French: canne
• German: Spazierstock, Krückstock, Gehstock, vierfüßiger Gehstock
• Italian: bastone, bastone da passeggio
• Portuguese: bengala
• Russian: трость
• Spanish: bastón