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sticksful

sticksful is the plural of stickful.

Meaning of stickful

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

Questions about sticksful

What is sticksful the plural of?
Sticksful is the plural of stickful.

Words near sticksful in the dictionary

  1. sticks with
  2. sticks-and-carrots
  3. sticks-in-the-mud
  4. stickseed
  5. stickseeds
  6. sticksful
  7. stickshaker
  8. stickshakers
  9. stickshed
  10. sticksheds
  11. stickshift

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