pigstick
Etymology
From pig + stick.
pigstick means A waterjet disruptor used to disable explosive devices. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
noun
- A waterjet disruptor used to disable explosive devices.“The pigstick was set up on the nightstand next to him, the shotgun shell held in place by a metal arm. I followed the wire to a timing device, realized I had no expertise at all to disarm it, and chose instead to simply point the contraption away from Lance.”
- A staff that carries a flag or pennant above the mast of a sailboat.“Above the truck there is frequently a slender vertical extension of the mast, called a pigstick.”
- An event or gathering at which pigs are hunted for sport.“I send you an account of a pigstick at which I was the other day, if you care to insert it in your Magazine.”
- A stick that is used for stabbing.“Nellie has often begged food from her : she has seen the woman use the "pigstick" to thrash the child with, and heard cries and moans coming from the end house.”
verb
- To stab.“But if he goes (I always looked things in the face) I suppose I'll get to the Front, too, and do me best to pigstick someone in baggy breeches that I never saw or heard of before […]”
- To hunt pigs.“There were generally enough, however, to pigstick with, hunt jackals, or even wolves at times, and "lark" over the steeplechase course which he had constructed round the* four hundred acre indigo field that was close to the house.”