swordstick

Etymology

From sword + stick.

swordstick means A cane incorporating a concealed blade. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.

Why “swordstick” is a great word

SWORDSTICK — [Noun] A walking cane with a concealed blade within its shaft. From sword (a weapon with a long metal blade) + stick (a slender piece of wood). Unlike a *singlestick*, an open training weapon of plain wood, or a *walking stick*, a purely supportive aid, the swordstick is genteel duplicity. It is the weighted heft that feels just slightly off, the quiet snick of a catch releasing in a deserted lane, and the sudden, shocking revelation of tempered steel from a sheath of polished oak—a quiet testament to the era when civility was merely a sheath for violence.

noun

A cane incorporating a concealed blade.“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.”