Penang lawyer

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Penang lawyer (plural Penang lawyers)

1. A kind of walking stick made from the stem of an East Asiatic palm (Licuala acutifida).
   • It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a "Penang lawyer." -The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Such a walking stick was also carried by Fitzroy Simpson in the short story "Silver Blaze" also by Sir Arthur.

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• Penang lawyer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913