"trench stick" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1859 January 30, William Howard Russell, My Diary in India",
          "text": "Paid a visit to Sir Robert Garrett, whom I was glad to find looking just as well as in the old days when he used to trudge past my hut with his \"trench-stick\" in his hand.",
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        {
          "ref": "1920, Philip Hamilton Gibbs, People of Destiny",
          "text": "He made a circle in the dust with his trench stick, and stared into the center of it.",
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        {
          "ref": "1919, Lord Dunsany, Unhappy Far-off Things",
          "text": "When I had finished speaking of the future, he raised a knobbed stick that he carried, up to the level of his throat, surely his son's old trench stick, and there he let it dangle from a piece of string in the handle, which he held against his neck.",
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        "A type of baton or cane used by soldiers in military trenches, especially of the First World War, for manoeuvring and for basic combat."
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      "translations": [
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "baton used in trenches",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "canne des tranchées"
        }
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          "ref": "1859 January 30, William Howard Russell, My Diary in India",
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          "text": "He made a circle in the dust with his trench stick, and stared into the center of it.",
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          "ref": "1919, Lord Dunsany, Unhappy Far-off Things",
          "text": "When I had finished speaking of the future, he raised a knobbed stick that he carried, up to the level of his throat, surely his son's old trench stick, and there he let it dangle from a piece of string in the handle, which he held against his neck.",
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      "sense": "baton used in trenches",
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      "word": "canne des tranchées"
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