Crossword clues for maulstick
The Collaborative International Dictionary
maulstick \maul"stick`\, maul-stick \maul"-stick`\, n. [G. malerstock; maler a painter + stock stick.] A stick used by painters as a rest for the hand while working. [Written also mahl-stick and mahlstick.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"light stick used by painters to support the painting hand," 1650s, from Dutch maalstok, literally "painting stick," from mallen "to paint," from Proto-Germanic *mal- (cognates: Old Norse mæla, Old High German malon "trace, draw, paint," German malen "to paint"), from mal "spot, mark, stain," perhaps from the same root as Greek melas "black" (see melanin), but the original sense is not color but marking. With stock "stick" (see stock (n.1)).
Wiktionary
n. (context arts English) A short stick with a pad on one end, used by a painter to steady his hand, and to prevent it from accidentally touching the painting
WordNet
n. a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush [syn: mahlstick]
Wikipedia
A mahlstick, or maulstick, is a stick with a soft leather or padded head used by painters to support the hand with which they hold their paintbrush. The word derives from the Dutch maalstok 'painter's stick', from malen 'to paint'.
In 16th- through 19th-century paintings of artists, including self-portraits, the maulstick is often depicted as part of the painter's equipment.
Portrait du peintre 1895.jpg| William-Adolphe Bouguereau holding painting implements portrait of Caterina van Hemessen at the Easel Painting a Devotional Panel by Sofonisba Anguissola.jpg|Self-portrait by Sofonisba Anguissola Manet 041.jpg|Portrait of Eva Gonzalès, by Édouard Manet Vermeer - The Art of Painting (detail) - WGA24677.jpg|Detail of Vermeer's Art of Painting with artist using mahlstick
Usage examples of "maulstick".
As he did so, he noted the deep scars on its muzzle and body, the dark slashes that were the mark of a maulstick applied at maximum power.
Here and there scribes sat at special tables crouching over sheets of vellum, quills of swan or goose in one hand and a maulstick to support the wrist in the other as they transcribed in elaborate or ornamental fashion some ancient work for posterity.
Whirling around, she grabbed the maulstick and slammed it into him, driving the already half-unconscious mass into the cell bars.
Despite taking a solid whack from the purloined maulstick, he held on long enough for his companions to pile in.
He waved his maulstick vaguely, as if in reference to the professorial practice of Munich, or to the antediluvian school of England.