"talking stick" meaning in English

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      "form": "talking sticks",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "A ceremonial stick that grants the holder the right to speak in a group discussion."
      ],
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "speaker's staff"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1901, R. H. Mathews, “Pictorial Art Among the Australian Aborigines”, in Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, volume XXXIII, London: Harrison and Sons, page 304",
          "text": "These \"talking sticks\" appear to have been made according to some conventional design known among the tribes using them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1903, Ada Janet Peggs, “Notes on the Aborigines of Roebuck Bay, Western Australia”, in Folk-lore, volume XIV, London: David Nutt, page 335",
          "text": "The same day that he read the talking-stick, he had asked permission to go to his own country, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, Coo-ee [AKA William Sylvester Walker], “The Promised Land”, in What Lay Beneath, London: John Ouseley, page 168",
          "text": "Since that time I've put a mark or two on trees telling the news to the Wàddygalos in the talking stick language, but I expect they knew all about it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "A piece of wood which is by aboriginal Australians as part of or a form of communication either by being carved or by another method."
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          "Australian",
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        [
          "communication",
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        "(Australia) A piece of wood which is by aboriginal Australians as part of or a form of communication either by being carved or by another method."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "message stick"
        },
        {
          "word": "stick letter"
        }
      ],
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        "Australia"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "en:talking stick"
  ],
  "word": "talking stick"
}

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        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "A ceremonial stick that grants the holder the right to speak in a group discussion."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "speaker's staff"
        }
      ]
    },
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          "ref": "1901, R. H. Mathews, “Pictorial Art Among the Australian Aborigines”, in Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, volume XXXIII, London: Harrison and Sons, page 304",
          "text": "These \"talking sticks\" appear to have been made according to some conventional design known among the tribes using them.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1903, Ada Janet Peggs, “Notes on the Aborigines of Roebuck Bay, Western Australia”, in Folk-lore, volume XIV, London: David Nutt, page 335",
          "text": "The same day that he read the talking-stick, he had asked permission to go to his own country, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, Coo-ee [AKA William Sylvester Walker], “The Promised Land”, in What Lay Beneath, London: John Ouseley, page 168",
          "text": "Since that time I've put a mark or two on trees telling the news to the Wàddygalos in the talking stick language, but I expect they knew all about it.",
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        }
      ],
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        "(Australia) A piece of wood which is by aboriginal Australians as part of or a form of communication either by being carved or by another method."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "message stick"
        },
        {
          "word": "stick letter"
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