alpenstock
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from German Alpenstock, from Alpen (“alps”) + Stock (“stick”), early 19th c.
Noun[edit]
alpenstock (plural alpenstocks)
- A stout adjustable walking stick with a metal point, used by mountain climbers and walkers in hilly or uneven terrain.
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 30:
- […] liaison being leaked to Der Spiegel resulted in the bizarre deaths of both an Ottawan paparazzo and a Bavarian international-affairs editor, of an alpenstock through the abdomen and an ill-swallowed cocktail onion, respectively?’
Translations[edit]
walking stick
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Further reading[edit]
alpenstock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
alpenstock m (plural alpenstocks)
Further reading[edit]
- “alpenstock”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
alpenstock m (plural alpenstocks)
- alpenstock (walking stick used by mountain climbers)
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