Definition of stick

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Stick (v. i.) To remain where placed; to be fixed; to hold fast to any position so as to be moved with difficulty; to cling; to abide; to cleave; to be united closely.

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Maul-stick :: Maul-stick (n.) A stick used by painters as a rest for the hand while working.
Pooler :: Pooler (n.) A stick for stirring a tan vat.
Pitch :: Pitch (n.) A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them..
Gum :: Gum (v. t.) To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance.
Sticky :: Stick-tight (n.) Beggar's ticks.
Stich :: Sticcado (n.) An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible sticks..
Glutinate :: Glutinate (v. t.) To unite with glue; to cement; to stick together.
Canstick :: Canstick (n.) Candlestick.
Bastinado :: Bastinado (n.) A blow with a stick or cudgel.
Yardstick :: Yardstick (n.) A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc..
Stall :: Stall (v. i.) To be set, as in mire or snow; to stick fast..
Sling :: Sling (v. t.) An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other. The missile being lodged in a hole in the strap, the ends of the string are taken in the hand, and the whole whirled rapidly round until, by loosing one end, the missile is let fly with centrifugal force..
Burnstickle :: Burnstickle (n.) A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
Stickler :: Stickleback (v. t.) Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback..
Haggle :: Haggle (v. i.) To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
Gunstick :: Gunstick (n.) A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod..
Punch :: Punch (v. t.) To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow..
Knobstick :: Knobstick (n.) One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trades union..
Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The part of a candlestick which supports its branches.
Lightwood :: Lightwood (n.) Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze..
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