"ashplant" meaning in English

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        "An ash sapling."
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          "ref": "1922, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, page 264",
          "text": "The colonnade above him made him think vaguely of an ancient temple and the ashplant on which he leaned wearily of the curved stick of an augur. / He began to beat the frayed end of his ashplant against the base of a pillar.",
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          "ref": "1928, Mary Butts, Armed With Madness, page 8",
          "text": "She look her hat, and ashplant, and left them.",
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          "ref": "1969, Seamus Heaney, The Outlaw, line 20-21",
          "text": "\"She'll do,\" said Kelly and tapped his ash-plant / Across her hindquarters."
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          "ref": "2001, Carol Kendall, Erik Blegvad, The Gammage Cup: A Novel of the Minnipins, page 221",
          "text": "Unconscious of their bulging eyes, he pounded on the door of the mayor's house with the knob of his ashplant.",
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        "A walking stick."
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          "kind": "lifeform",
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          "name": "Olive family plants",
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          "ref": "1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet: Kidnapped from the Air",
          "text": "Bob Cherry bent over and touched his toes. The ashplant swished and swished.",
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        "A stick kept for administering corporal punishment, a cane."
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          "ref": "1928, Mary Butts, Armed With Madness, page 8",
          "text": "She look her hat, and ashplant, and left them.",
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          "text": "\"She'll do,\" said Kelly and tapped his ash-plant / Across her hindquarters."
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