It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a “Penang lawyer.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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— a walking stick having usually a bulbous head and made of the stem of an East Asiatic palm (Licuala acutifida)
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1 uses of ‘Penang lawyer’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle