fire-stick (pluralfire-sticks)

1. Agun orcannon, especially arifle. Originally used by or ascribed to members of non-European cultures or anthropomorphized animals describing firearms.

   A troop of soldiers, armed withfire-sticks, entered the valley.

   I knocked the man down, and he ran into the woods, leaving hisfire-stick on the ground.

   • 1904, W.A. Fraser, “The Narrative of Buffalo and Bison”, inMetropolitan, volume20, number11, pages195–196:

     "Arna means by thefire-stick a gun," explained Sa'-zada.

2. Alternative form offirestick

• thunderstick

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