locust stick
English
Noun
locust stick (plural locust sticks)
- (US, obsolete) A type of truncheon formerly used by the New York City police force. [19th–20th c.]
- Synonym: locust club
- 1909 October – 1910 February, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “The Highfield”, in Psmith Journalist, London: A[dam] & C[harles] Black, […], published October 1923, →OCLC, page 95:
- People avoided places where at any moment the festivities might be marred by an inrush of large men in blue uniforms armed with locust-sticks.