Walking stick

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Sticks are tools used to facilitate walking, for fashion, or for defense reasons.

Sticks run in various shapes and sizes, and can be searched by collectors. Some types of sticks can be used by disabled people as a support. Walking sticks are also historically known to be used as a defensive or offensive weapon, and may hide a knife or sword like on a sword stick.

Walking sticks, also known as trekking poles, pilgrim staff, hiking poles or hiking sticks, are used by pedestrians for various purposes: to clean spider webs, or parts of thick bushes or grass covering the trail; as a supporter when going uphill or brake when down; as a balance point when crossing a river, swamp or other rough terrain; feel the roadblocks; to test mud and puddles for depth; to increase the rhythm of stepping, and as a defense against wild animals. Also known as alpenstock, from its origins in mountains in the Alps, such as walking sticks equipped with steel dots and hook or pick on top. Walking sticks can be improvised from nearby logging. The more ornate sticks are made for avid pedestrians, and are often decorated with little trinkets or medals that portray "conquer" territories. Wooden sticks are used for outdoor sports, healthy upper body sports and even club warnings, departments and families. They can be individually created from a number of forests, and can be personalized in many ways to their owners.

A walking stick collector is called a rabologist.

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Origin

Around the 17th or 18th centuries, a strong rigid stick took over from the sword as an important part of the European men's wardrobe, used mainly as a stick. In addition to its value as a decorative accessory, it also continues to fulfill some of the functions of the sword as a weapon. Standard sticks are rattan with a round metal handle. Overcast sticks are made of malaka (rattan rod) and show patina age:

Sir Plume, from the dirty, useless, tobacco box,
And good behavior from overcast sticks.

Some sticks have a specially-weighted metal. Other types of wood, such as hickory, are equally suitable.

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Accessories

• The most common accessory, before or after purchase or manufacture, is a hand strap, to prevent the loss of a stick if the hand releases its grip. These are often threaded through holes that are drilled into the rod rather than fastened.
• A similar clip or similar device template can be used to paste the stick above the top of the table.
• In cold climates, metal cleats can be added to sugar cane legs. This dramatically increases the attractiveness of the ice. This device is usually designed so it can be easily turned sideways to prevent damage to indoor floors.
• Different grips available for adjusting grips of various sizes.
• Rubber ferrules provide extra traction on most surfaces.
• The Nordic walking (ski walking) pole is very popular in Europe. Walking with two poles in the correct length radically reduces stress to the knees, hips and back. This special pole comes with a rope that resembles a fingerless glove, long-lasting metal tip for off-road and removable rubber tip for sidewalks and other hard surfaces.

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Religious use

Various office staff from sticks or sticks are used by western and eastern Christian churches. In Islamic walking stick ('Asa) is considered a Sunnah and Muslims are encouraged to bring one. The priest traditionally gave the sermon while leaning against a stick.

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Type

Ashplant - Irish rod made of ash tree.

Blackthorn - Irish stick, or shillelagh, made of blackthorn ( Prunus spinosa ).

Devil's walking stick - Made from Hercules plant.

Shooting stick - Can fold into single-legged seat.

SupplejackÃ, - Made of American tropical wine, also serves as a stick.

Lawyer Penang - Made of Licuala . After the bark is removed only with a piece of glass, the stick is straightened by fire and polished. The fictitious Dr Mortimer has one of them in The Hound of the Baskervilles. So was Fitzroy Simpson, the main suspect in "The Adventure of Silver Blaze" (1892), whose weighted stick was originally regarded as a murder weapon.

Makila (or makhila) Ã, - Walking stick or Basque staff, usually made of medlar wood. These often have legs or gold or silver handles, which may hide a steel blade. Makila's delicate carvings are actually carved into living wood, then left to heal before harvesting.

KebbieÃ, - the walking stick of Scotland, similar to Irish shillelagh, with a crooked head.

Whangee - Asia, made of bamboo, also equestrian plant. Such a stick is owned by Charlie Chaplin's character, The Tramp.

Malacca - The Malay stick is made of rattan tree.

Pike StaffÃ, - Pointing at the end for a slippery surface.

Scout Staff - The high sticks traditionally carried by Scouts, which have a number of uses in emergencies

Waddy - Australian Aboriginal wand or wand, about a meter in length, sometimes with a stone head stuck with a rope and beeswax.

Ziegenhainer - Knotty German stick, made from European cornel, is also used as a melee weapon by the second duellist. The spiral grooves caused by the parasitic tendrils are often imitated by the creator if they do not exist.

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American "walking stick"

In North America, walking sticks are sticks with curved tops like shepherd rods, but shorter. So, even though they are called "sticks", they are usually made of heavier material than sugar cane, such as wood or metal.

In the United States, the president often carries a stick and accepts it as a gift. The Smithsonian had a stick given to George Washington by Benjamin Franklin. It features a golden handle in the shape of a Phrygian hat. In modern times, sticks are usually only seen with formal attire. Retractable sticks that reveal properties such as hidden compartments, cue rods, or knives are popular among collectors. The handle has been made of many substances, both natural and man-made. The sculptured and ornate sticks have turned the function fantastically.

The idea of ​​luxury sticks as fashion accessories with high hat and tail has been popularized in many dance tunes, especially by Fred Astaire in several films and songs such as Top Hat, White Ties and Tails and Puttin 'On the Ritz , where he advised "Come on, let's mix where Rockefeller runs with a stick or umbrella in their sheath." He often dances with a stick.

Some sticks, known as "Tippling Canes" or "Tipplers", have a hollow compartment near the top where the thermos or bottle of alcohol can be hidden and popping up on demand.

When used as mobility or auxiliary stability, a stick is usually used in the hand opposite to injury or weakness. This may seem counter-intuitive, but this allows the rod to be used for stability in a way that allows the user to shift most of its weight to the stick and away from the weaker side while walking. Personal preferences, or the need to hold a stick in their dominant hand, mean some cane users choose to hold a stick on the side of those who are injured.

In the US Congress in 1856, Charles Sumner of Massachusetts criticized Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and Andrew Butler of South Carolina for the Kansas-Nebraska Act. When a relative of Andrew Butler, Preston Brooks, heard him, he felt that Sumner's behavior demanded revenge, and beat him unhappily on the Senate floor with a walking stick gutta percha. Although the event is commonly known as "Charles Sumner's Senatorial whip," it is not a whip in the sense of a normal formal body penalty (especially English) with a more flexible and usually thinner rattan.

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See also

• Cane gun
• Sword Sword
• Danda
• Pace stick
• Shillelagh (club)
• Runs in Nordic
• Umbrella stand

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References

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External links

• Walking-Stick Papers (Robert Cortes Holliday, 1918) Ã, - Project Gutenberg ebook
• Self Defense with Stick Feet (Pearson Magazine, January 1901)
• How to measure the correct running stick length
• How to Determine the Correct Walking Stick

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