stick
/stɪk/ noun B2- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch. · The beaver's dam was made out of sticks.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size. · I found several good sticks in the brush heap.· What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A stick.
- A timber board, especially a two by four (inches). · I found enough sticks in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking. · I don’t need my stick to walk, but it’s helpful.
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards. · As soon as the fight started, the guards came in swinging their sticks.
- The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden). · We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture.
Plural sticks
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
Thus he came along, supporting himself on a curiously carved stick, his aged countenance lit up with happiness, looking for all the world like one of the aged dandies of 1796, parading the newly opened gardens of the Luxembourg and Tuileries.
If anyone treads on my toes or sticks a pin into me, it doesn’t matter, for I can’t feel it.
The farmer carried me under his arm to the cornfield, and set me up on a tall stick, where you found me.
“To wash my face clean after the dust of the road, and to drink, so the dry bread will not stick in my throat.”
Other matches
- stick To become or remain attached B1
- stick To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member o... C2
- stick A thrust with a pointed instrument C2
- stick Likely to stick C2
- stick around To stay
- stick by to follow or adhere to somebody or something, t...
- stick down To cause to stick to a surface.
- stick out To protrude.
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