Definition of "ashplant"

The colonnade above him made him think vaguely of an ancient temple and the ashplant on which he leaned wearily of the curved stick of an augur. / He began to beat the frayed end of his ashplant against the base of a pillar.

1922, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, page 264

She look her hat, and ashplant, and left them.

1928, Mary Butts, Armed With Madness, page 8

"She'll do," said Kelly and tapped his ash-plant / Across her hindquarters.

1969, Seamus Heaney, The Outlaw, line 20-21

Unconscious of their bulging eyes, he pounded on the door of the mayor's house with the knob of his ashplant.

2001, Carol Kendall, Erik Blegvad, The Gammage Cup: A Novel of the Minnipins, page 221

Bob Cherry bent over and touched his toes. The ashplant swished and swished.

1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet: Kidnapped from the Air