pigsticker
See also: pig sticker
English
Etymology
Noun
pigsticker (plural pigstickers)
- A large knife, used as a weapon.
- A spike bayonet
- (US, dialect) A sled with a pointed front.
- (UK, India) A hunter of wild boar.
- (UK, India) A horse well-suited to hunt wild boar.
- A pork butcher.
Related terms
Translations
pork butcher
References
- “pigsticker”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pigsticker”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.