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Alpenstock

noun

A stout staff with a metal point; used by mountain climbers.

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"Alpenstock" Quotes from Famous Books

... loved the poor goatherd Juon, who possessed nothing in the world but his sheepskin pelisse and his alpenstock; him she loved and him alone. Wealthy old Misule would naturally have nothing to say to such a match; he had in his eye an influential friend of his, a gentleman and village elder in the county of Fehervar, one Gligor Tobicza,—to ...

— The Poor Plutocrats • Maurus Jokai

... escaping from him, and if it had not been for Jan, the great mastiff of the famous St. Bernard breed, he would have been still more troubled. As it was, he found one goat missing when he went to house them, and again he had to take his alpenstock and try ...

— Prince Lazybones and Other Stories • Mrs. W. J. Hays

... alpenstock, a long stick which she always carried with her, hung the little bundle of lunch, tied up in a cloth, from the end of it, put the stick over her shoulder, and, calling Bello, began at once to ...

— The Swiss Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins

Words linked to "Alpenstock" : tip, peak, point, staff