Nounpublic caning (60-100 strokes; second least severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

Nounceremonial weapon · ceremony

Nounkhakkhara (staff topped with metal rings traditionally carried by monks); pewter staff

Nounblow received by a bystander; getting dragged in to someone else's fight

Nounresting one's chin in one's hands · brace (in construction); angle brace

NounJapanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica); flowering bamboo

Nounstaff (esp. one used by a monk, e.g. as a walking stick during a pilgrimage)

Nounbrace (in construction); angle brace

Nounmace; (ceremonial) staff

Nounwand used when preparing gruel for the 15th of the first month (said to cure sterility in women)

Nounwhite cane (for the blind or visually impaired)

Nounforked stick

Nouncrosier; crozier

Nounholy staff; sacred staff

Nountree branch used as a charm against evil

Nounball-and-mallet game played during New Year's celebrations

Nounbow used as a walking stick · length of a bow

Nouncrutch; crutches

Nounbamboo rod (stick, pole)

Nouncrutches

Nounpilgrim's staff

Nounmagic wand

Nounburning of New Year's gate decorations (usu. on the 15th day of the New Year)

Nounflail with a retractable iron weight and chain

Nounswordstick; sword cane; loaded cane

NounBurmannia championii (species of flowering plant)

Nounmagic wand

NounOrb and Sceptre (march by Sir William Walton)

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.)prevention is better than cure; an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure; look before you leap; forewarned is forearmed; a stitch in time saves nine; a walking stick before stumbling

Nounrod of Asclepius