Definition of stick

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Stick (n.) To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such moldings are said to be stuck..

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Cudgel :: Cudgel (n.) A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon..
Stick :: Stick (n.) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat..
Brog :: Brog (n.) A pointed instrument, as a joiner's awl, a brad awl, a needle, or a small sharp stick..
Stall :: Stall (v. i.) To be set, as in mire or snow; to stick fast..
Rebate :: Rebate (n.) A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar..
Nick :: Nick (v. t.) To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc..
Sticker :: Sticker (n.) One who, or that which, sticks; as, a bill sticker..
Stickling :: Stickled (imp. & p. p.) of Stickl.
Bepommel :: Bepommel (v. t.) To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing..
Backsword :: Backsword (n.) In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick..
Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.
Girandole :: Girandole (n.) An ornamental branched candlestick.
Rigoll :: Rigoll (n.) A musical instrument formerly in use, consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads, and played with a stick with a ball at its end..
Stick :: Stick (n.) To cause to penetrate; to push, thrust, or drive, so as to pierce; as, to stick a needle into one's finger..
Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Drum :: Drum (n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band..
Cockshy :: Cockshy (n.) A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in shying or throwing cudgels at live cocks..
Woolder :: Woolder (n.) A stick used to tighten the rope in woolding.
Valet :: Valet (n.) A kind of goad or stick with a point of iron.
Singlestick :: Singlestick (n.) The game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling..
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