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sticke

sticke is the obsolete form of stick.

Meaning of stick

Verb (1)

stick (third-person singular simple present sticks, present participle sticking, simple past and past participle sticked)

  1. To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
  2. (dated, slang, transitive) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
    • to stick type
  3. (transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.
  4. To hit with a stick.

Verb (2)

stick (third-person singular simple present sticks, present participle sticking, simple past and past participle stuck or (archaic) sticked)

  1. (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
    • The tape will not stick if it melts.
  2. (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
    • The lever sticks if you push it too far up.

See all 89 meanings of stick

Forms of sticke

third-person singular presentstickes
present participlesticking
past participlestuck
paststuck
past participlesticked
paststicked

Questions about sticke

What is sticke the obsolete form of?
Sticke is the obsolete form of stick.

Words near sticke in the dictionary

  1. stickages
  2. stickball
  3. stickballer
  4. stickballers
  5. stickballs
  6. sticke
  7. sticked
  8. Stickel
  9. Stickels
  10. Stickelses
  11. sticken

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sticke (page history and authors); stick (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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