ironshod
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editironshod (not comparable)
- Of a stick or cane: covered in iron at one end.
- 1875, Charles William Heckethorn, The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries, volume 2, page 83:
- […] to his buttonhole is attached an enormous tobacco pouch; in his mouth he carries a long pipe, and an ironshod stick in his hand.
- 1955, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Grandfather Stories, page 99:
- Of course, the charge that I attempted to thrust out Tib's eye with an ironshod fending pole was perjurious nonsense.