walking stick

IPA: wˈɔkɪŋstˈɪk

A tool, such as a cane, used to ease pressure on the legs, and to aid stability, when walking.
A stick insect (order Phasmida).
(card games, slang) A playing card with the rank of seven.

walkingstick

IPA: wˈɔkɪŋstɪk

Alternative form of walking stick [A tool, such as a cane, used to ease pressure on the legs, and to aid stability, when walking.]

IPA: wˈɔkɪŋstˈɪk

Alternative spelling of walking stick [A tool, such as a cane, used to ease pressure on the legs, and to aid stability, when walking.]

A walking stick is a stick that walks, and the phrase might occur as a metaphorical description of a stiffly behaved person: a walking-stick or walkingstick is a stick for walking; the difference may sometimes be important, and consistency may be held to require that all compounds with gerunds should be hyphened or made into single words.

And he dropped onto the table the head and part of the shaft of a charred walking-stick.
In the sale, two walking-stick guns made of cane and horn are estimated together at £150-£250.
In plain English — I left my favourite walking-stick at your house; take care of it for me; and command the services of
Everyone carried a walking-stick crafted of bamboo with handles hand carved into the head of some unidentifiable animal.
I had a real horrorshow smeck at that, viddying that she had in her veiny rooker a crappy wood walking-stick which she raised at me threatening.
There is the sound and look of fear there in the eyes and words of another silver haired woman, like me, who stopped me one day to ask if my walking-stick (cane) was due to knee or hip replacement surgery, which thankfully it is not.
Among many bizarre comic vignettes, the cerebral Sigmund Freud flaps his arms “like an old crow” and hysterically tries to analyze what is happening to him as “his doodly came alive and stuck out as though he had a walking-stick in his trousers.”