stickfuls

Noun

stickful (plural stickfuls or sticksful)

1. (dated) As much type as fills a composing stick.
   • That first morning it took me half an hour to set my first stickful, a dozen lines.1970, Hal Borland, Country editor's boy, page 55
2. An amount that is held on one stick.
   • I started with old headman and passed a good smoking hot stickful of meat to everyone, about twenty or twenty-five of them altogether in the order what I guessed their ages was.1965, John Conrad Bushman, Scope/reading: guide 1, page 138