Meaning of trench stick | Babel Free

Definitions

A type of baton or cane used by soldiers in military trenches, especially of the First World War, for manoeuvring and for basic combat.

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Examples

“Paid a visit⟳ to Sir Robert Garrett, whom I was glad to find⟳ looking just as well as in the old days when he used to trudge past my hut with his "trench-stick" in his hand.”

“He made a circle in the dust with his trench stick⟳, and stared into the center of it.”

“When I had finished speaking of the future, he raised a knobbed stick⟳ that he carried, up to the level of his throat, surely his son's old trench stick⟳, and there he let⟳ it dangle from a piece of string in the handle⟳, which he held against his neck.”

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