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Baton, say
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stick
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Word definitions for stick in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stick \Stick\, n. [OE. sticke, AS. sticca; akin to stician to stab, prick, pierce, G. stecken a stick, staff, OHG. steccho, Icel. stik a stick. See Stick , v. t..] A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES be stuck/caught/held up in traffic ▪ Sorry I’m late – I was stuck in traffic. carrot and stick approach ▪ the government’s carrot and stick approach in getting young people to find jobs cocktail stick fish stick French ...
Usage examples of stick.
The water boiled around Abo as the shark thrashed, but Abo stayed on and, holding the stick like handlebars, he pulled back to keep the shark from diving and steered him into the shallow water of the reef, where the other men waited with their knives drawn.
Even the steadily increasing snow did not cut into the glare of the lights very much, or change the illusion that the whole works, from the crappy siding to the pair of tin woodstove stacks sticking acrooked out of the roof to the single rusty gas-pump out front, was simply set-dressing.
This adapid generally stuck to the deeper forest where its slowness was not as disadvantageous as it would be on more open ground.
But when you have the honor of associating with ordinary men, and the pleasure of leaving politics for a moment, try to find your affectionate heart, which you leave with your stick when you go to the Chamber.
Awm his mam,-- That aw am, But awm ommost worn aght, A gooid lick Wi a stick, He just cares nowt abaght.
The last thing I wanted back then, Rae, was to get stuck in Alameda by an unplanned pregnancy.
Laying aside the first branch, Nysander passed the birch switch through the flame and water and struck Alec lightly on his cheeks, shoulders, chest, thighs, and feet, then snapped the stick in two.
A little alnico magnet, stuck in exactly the right place with a wad of chewing gum, can erase a hundred thousand units of information before they find it.
He stuck his hands in his alpaca pockets and leaned back against the railing.
We had quite enough to do to prevent ourselves from being served in the same ruthless fashion, and now and then, in the more violent gusts of wind, were glad to stick our alpenstocks into the ice and hold on hard.
They looked like clusters of pyramidical Amalgam Creatures stuck together into various shapes.
Also we of the Amapakati, the council, were there, and ranged round the fence of the space, armed with short sticks only--not with kerries, my father--was that regiment of young men which Dingaan had not sent away, the captain of the regiment being stationed near to the king, on the right.
I mean, how are we going to snare her a nice androsphinx if she stays stuck inside with her books all day every day?
With a forked stick he took the beaker from the ashes and placed it in the annealing oven.
And sticked him with bodekins anon With many a wound, and thus they let him lie.