Meaning

To stab..

Definitions by Sense

1. To stab.
2. (obsolete) To hunt pigs.
3. A waterjet disruptor used to disable explosive devices.
4. (nautical) A staff that carries a flag or pennant above the mast of a sailboat.
5. (obsolete) An event or gathering at which pigs are hunted for sport.
6. A stick that is used for stabbing.

Example Sentences

But if he goes (I always looked things in the face) I suppose I'll get to the Front, too, and do me best to pigstick someone in baggy breeches that I never saw or heard of before […]

Sometimes I tried to pigstick him with a broken broom stick ...

Mother Gota gutted two and l pigstuck one when I walked in.

Unless you get pigstuck first. I got friends inside that owe me.

There were generally enough, however, to pigstick with, hunt jackals, or even wolves at times, and "lark" over the steeplechase course which he had constructed round the* four hundred acre indigo field that was close to the house.

After the Kadir, three Officers stayed down on leave to pigstick at Meerut, but only one stuck it out to the end of the season, the attraction of Simla and polo at Dehra Dun claiming the other two respectively.

Firstly, I know a subaltern in a British regiment who plays polo and pigsticks and occasionally shoots big game […]

They know how, or they would be severally and separately and many times dead, but they do not, they do not indeed, know that animals who stand on one hind leg and beckon with all the rest, or try to pigstick in harness, are not trap-horses worthy of endearing names, but things to be pole-axed.

Word Forms

• pigsticks
• pigsticking
• pigsticked
• pigstuck
• pig stick

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Use pigstick when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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