Meanings
plural alpenstocks
- A stout adjustable walking stick with a metal point, used by mountain climbers and walkers in hilly or uneven terrain.
[…]liaison being leaked to Der Spiegel resulted in the bizarre deaths of both an Ottawan paparazzo and a Bavarian international-affairs editor, of an alpenstock through the abdomen and an ill-swallowed cocktail onion, respectively?’
1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 30
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- GermanAlpenstock
- Englishalpenstock
Borrowed from German Alpenstock, from Alpen (“alps”) + Stock (“stick”), early 19th c.
More words from German
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian пикел, а́лпенщок
- пикел (pikel)walking stick
- а́лпенщок (álpenštok)walking stick
Finnish vaelluskeppi
- vaelluskeppiwalking stick
German Alpenstock
- Alpenstockwalking stick
Irish alpastaic, cleith ailpín
- alpastaicwalking stick
- cleith ailpínwalking stick
Latin montānus baculus
- montānus baculuswalking stick
Polish alpensztok
- alpensztokwalking stick
Portuguese alpenstock
- alpenstockwalking stick
Spanish garrocha
- garrochawalking stick
Turkish dağ bastonu, dağ değneği
- dağ bastonuwalking stick
- dağ değneğiwalking stick
- dağ çomağıwalking stick
Cite this entry
alpenstock. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alpenstock
“alpenstock.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alpenstock. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “alpenstock,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alpenstock.
Source: alpenstock on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.