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ashplant

British

/ ˈæʃˌplɑːnt /

noun

a walking stick made from an ash sapling

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He knew that she would most likely have a book under her arm, and an ashplant in her hand.

From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

He climbed over the sedge and eely oarweeds and sat on a stool of rock, resting his ashplant in a grike.

From Ulysses by James Joyce

Stephen stands at the pianola on which sprawl his hat and ashplant.

From Ulysses by James Joyce

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

From Ulysses by James Joyce

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

From Ulysses by James Joyce

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