white stick

British  

noun

1. a walking stick used by a blind person for feeling the way: painted white as a sign to others that the person is blind

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white stick

Mr Szell uses a white stick and says it is hard to navigate around the boards, and he often hurts his hand on them and has tumbled over one.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2023

The network’s night-vision drone cameras have showed hundreds of migrants walking across the border, each one appearing as a luminous white stick slowly advancing across a dark screen.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2023

Blind since birth, Jamet has for years used a white stick to get around.

From Reuters ● Sep. 24, 2021

Tellingly, the cover of the exhibition catalog is embossed with a white stick figure wielding a paintbrush.

From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2021

The white stick figure on the crosswalk sign tells us to cross.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

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