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music-stick

music-stick is the alternative form of musicstick.

Meaning of musicstick

Noun

musicstick (plural musicsticks)

  1. (Australia) A kind of drumstick used by striking one against another, to maintain rhythm in Aboriginal voice chants.
    • The camp was silent save for clicking of music-sticks in the distant native camp […]1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 88
    Synonyms:
    clapper, clapstick

Forms of music-stick

pluralmusic-sticks

Questions about music-stick

What is music-stick the alternative form of?
Music-stick is the alternative form of musicstick.

Words near music-stick in the dictionary

  1. music video game
  2. music video games
  3. music videos
  4. music volute
  5. music volutes
  6. music-stick
  7. music-sticks
  8. music-wise
  9. musica ficta
  10. musica universalis
  11. musicaholic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: music-stick (page history and authors); musicstick (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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