Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A long staff with an iron point, formerly used by mountain climbers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A long, stout staff pointed with iron, originally used by the Alpine mountaineers, and now generally adopted by mountain-climbers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
stout adjustable walking stick with ametal point , used by mountain climbers andwalkers inhilly oruneven terrain
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a stout staff with a metal point; used by mountain climbers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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You see, the alpenstock is his trophy; his name is burned upon it; and if he has climbed a hill, or jumped a brook, or traversed a brickyard with it, he has the names of those places burned upon it, too.
A Tramp Abroad 1879
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You see, the alpenstock is his trophy; his name is burned upon it; and if he has climbed a hill, or jumped a brook, or traversed a brickyard with it, he has the names of those places burned upon it, too.
A Tramp Abroad — Volume 04 Mark Twain 1872
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She accepted the "alpenstock" gratefully and soon found it useful for both purposes.
Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party Edyth Ellerbeck Read 1924
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The picture of him limned itself on her inner vision, and before she was aware she was pleasuring in the memory of the grace of his magnificent body, of his splendid shoulders, of the power in him that tossed her lightly on a horse, bore her safely through the thundering breakers, or towed her at the end of an alpenstock up the stern lava crest of the House of the Sun.
ALOHA OE 2010
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She waved her alpenstock, and as he doffed his cap, rounded the brink and disappeared.
CHAPTER 4 2010
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In addition, she carried for alpenstock the willow pole of Neepoosa.
CHAPTER 3 2010
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She advances over the upland, jumps over the brook, with the aid of her alpenstock, and climbs up the hillock.
When We Dead Awaken 2008
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She advances over the upland, jumps over the brook, with the aid of her alpenstock, and climbs up the hillock.
When We Dead Awaken 2008
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Every lady had her guide and alpenstock, every man had his alpenstock, and all of us were strapped round our waists to hold on to each other.
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Once I slipped, and my legs fell in, and my alpenstock; but I clung to the stump till hauled up.
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