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malstick

malstick is the alternative form of maulstick.

Meaning of maulstick

Noun

maulstick (plural maulsticks)

  1. A short stick with a pad on one end, used by a painter to steady their hand, and to prevent it from accidentally touching the painting.
    • Here the lamps blazed as a dozen or so of the brethren were seated at their desks with maulsticks to rest their wrists on as they used their quills to copy texts on to vellum from the skins of goats or sheep.2012, Peter Tremayne, Behold a Pale Horse: A Mystery of Ancient Ireland, page 292

Forms of malstick

pluralmalsticks

Questions about malstick

What is malstick the alternative form of?
Malstick is the alternative form of maulstick.

Words near malstick in the dictionary

  1. malshapen
  2. Malson
  3. Malsons
  4. malster
  5. malsters
  6. malstick
  7. malsticks
  8. Malswick
  9. malt
  10. malt beer
  11. malt beers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: malstick (page history and authors); maulstick (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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