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A gun or cannon, especially a rifle. Originally used by or ascribed to members of non-European cultures or anthropomorphized animals describing firearms.
A troop of soldiers, armed with fire-sticks, entered the valley.
I knocked the man down, and he ran into the woods, leaving his fire-stick on the ground.
1904, W.A. Fraser, “The Narrative of Buffalo and Bison”, in Metropolitan, volume 20, number 11, pages 195–196:
"Arna means by the fire-stick a gun," explained Sa'-zada.
