Sekirov Dictionary

pigstick

noun 4
verb 2
forms 4

noun4

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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. — 1912
•
A waterjet disruptor used to disable explosive devices.
- The 'pigstick' (named from hunting wild boar with a spear) is a British Army name for the waterjet disrupter used on the Wheelbarrow robot against the IRA in the 1970s. — 2013
•
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. — 1959
•
(no longer used) 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. — 1876

verb2

•
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 […] — 1894
•
(no longer used) To hunt pigs.
- Firstly, I know a subaltern in a British regiment who plays polo and pigsticks and occasionally shoots big game […] — 1911

forms

pigsticked · pigstuck · pigsticking · pigsticks

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