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shooting stick
noun
A walking stick that has a spike at one end, and a handle that unfolds into a simple seat; used as a short-term seat at outdoor events
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Somebody had donated a shooting stick.
I guess we turn the stool into a shooting stick.
You really can't balance on a shooting stick.
There's a woman perched on a shooting stick who's wearing trousers.
Occasionally she'd come tottering up to my house tap-tapping on the window with a shooting stick.
Not much more than an elegant shooting stick, it is composed of two curved flanges bent from gracefully bowed legs.
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He set up his shooting sticks, so he had something on which to rest his gun.
Shooting sticks look like the symbol for a tepee; you rest a rifle in the notch at the top.
The first time I shot a living thing was from a set of bamboo shooting sticks stuck into a dust path that ran skimble-skamble across a farm in South Africa.
The midinettes who traditionally enliven all Parisian crowds and their more recent sisters the "dactylos" had a good glimpse of what was officially called the "London Look," and if it convinced them that not all Englishwomen always wear heavy tweeds and shooting sticks - well, something may have been done towards cementing Anglo-French relationships.
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