Complete Definition of "Penang lawyer"

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Noun
en-noun

  1. A kind of walking stick made from the stem of an East Asiatic palm (Licuala acutifida).

#* It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a "Penang lawyer." -The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

References
R:1913

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