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ashplant

British  
/ ˈæʃˌplɑːnt /

noun

  1. a walking stick made from an ash sapling

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—Sacrifizio incruento, Stephen said smiling, swaying his ashplant in slow swingswong from its midpoint, lightly.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

Then he turned into a lovely white ashplant, which stood there waving its boughs in a stately manner.

From The Path of Life by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

He came out of the wood-house, an ashplant in his hand.

From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

By the bye have you the book, the thing, the ashplant?

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

Stephen with hat ashplant frogsplits in middle highkicks with skykicking mouth shut hand clasp part under thigh.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James