英和和英

名詞

swordstick (複数形 swordsticks)

1. A cane incorporating a concealed blade.
   • 2005, Alice Mills, Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake (page 82)

     In Gormenghast Swelter's kitchen boy Steerpike also ends his murderous life, pierced by a knife, in the temporary waters of the flooded castle. Steerpike can be understood as an imitator of his former kitchen master Swelter, his slim swordstick a thin copy of Swelter's cleaver.