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side-stick

side-stick is the alternative form of sidestick.

Meaning of sidestick

Noun

sidestick (plural sidesticks)

  1. A control joystick located beside the seat of the pilot.
    • The FDR showed that the captain immediately applied back pressure on his sidestick to arrest the pitch-down movement. The aircraft’s flight control system did not initially respond to the captain’s sidestick input, but after about 2 seconds the aircraft responded normally and the captain commenced...2011 December 19, Australian Transport Safety Bureau, “1.1.3 First in-flight upset (0442:27)”, in In-flight upset - 154 km west of Learmonth, WA, 7 October 2008, VH-QPA, Airbus A330-303, archived...
  2. (historical) A sloped or beveled piece of wood or metal placed against the side of a page that is being typeset, and locked in place by quoins.
    • The sidesticks should be of the full length of the page, and abut against the headsticks on the outside of the form .1841, William Savage, A Dictionary of the Art of Printing, page 330

Forms of side-stick

pluralside-sticks

Questions about side-stick

What is side-stick the alternative form of?
Side-stick is the alternative form of sidestick.

Words near side-stick in the dictionary

  1. side-slips
  2. side-split
  3. side-splits
  4. side-splitting
  5. side-splittingly
  6. side-stick
  7. side-sticks
  8. side-straddle hop
  9. side-straddle hops
  10. side-striped jackal
  11. side-striped jackals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: side-stick (page history and authors); sidestick (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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