trapstick

trap-stick

From trap +‎ stick.

trapstick (plural trapsticks)

1. A stick used in playing the game of trapball.
2. (figuratively, dated) A slender leg.
   • 1714 July 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “FRIDAY, June 25, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 559; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     These had made a foolish swop between a couple of thick bandy legs and two long trapsticks that had no calves to them

     The spelling has been modernized.

• “trapstick”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.