Word Meanings - CRABSTICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the carb tree.

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• STICK-LAC
  See LAC
• STICKING
  a. & n. from Stick, v. Sticking piece, a piece of beef cut from the neck. -- Sticking place, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. Shak. --
• STICKFUL
  As much set type as fills a composing stick.
• STICKTAIL
  The ruddy duck.
• STICK
  A composing stick. See under Composing. It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is used. 6. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab. A stick of eels, twenty-five eels. -- Stick chimney, a chimney made
• STICKLEBACK
  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,
• STICKINESS
  The quality of being sticky; as, the stickiness of glue or paste.
• STICKY
  Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious. Herbs which last longest are those of strong smell, and with a sticky stalk. Bacon.
• CUDGELER
  One who beats with a cudgel.
• STICK-SEED
  A plant of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.
• STICKIT
  Stuck; spoiled in making. Stickit minister, a candidate for the clerical office who fails, disqualified by incompetency or immorality.
• STICKLE
  freq. of stihten, AS. stihtan: cf. G. stiften to found, to 1. To separate combatants by intervening. When he sees half of the Christians killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and the
• STICKLER
  One who stickles. Specifically: -- One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire. Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey. Sir P. Sidney. Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the
• STICKER
  In the organ, a small wooden rod which connects a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing. 4. Same as Paster, 2. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, sticks; as, a bill sticker. 2. That which causes one to stick; that which
• STICK-TIGHT
  Beggar's ticks.
• CUDGEL
  A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon. He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and . . . falls to rating of them as if they were dogs. Bunyan. Cudgel play,
• STICKED
  Stuck. And in the sand her ship sticked so fast. Chaucer. They sticked not to give their bodies to be burnt. Sir T. Browne.
• POKING-STICK
  A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak.
• PIG-STICKING
  Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians. Tackeray.
• FORESTICK
  Front stick of a hearth fire.
• CHOPSTICK
  One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.
• MESSAGE STICK
  A stick, carved with lines and dots, used, esp. by Australian aborigines, to convey information.
• CATSTICK
  A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat or tipcat. Massinger.
• BANSTICKLE
  A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.
• FIDDLESTICK
  The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.
• BESTICK
  To stick over, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce. Truth shall retire Bestuck with slanderous darts. Milton.
• MOPSTICK
  The long handle of a mop.
• BROOMSTICK
  A stick used as a handle of a broom.
• UNSTICK
  To release, as one thing stuck to another. Richardson.
• MOSTIC; MOSTICK
  A painter's maul-stick.
• YARDSTICK
  A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc.