Stickful
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Stickful is a noun meaning (printing, dated) As much type as fills a composing stick.
Meaning
(printing, dated) As much type as fills a composing stick.
More Meanings
- An amount that is held on one stick.
Example Sentences
Stickful after stickful is placed on this galley, until it also is full.
That first morning it took me half an hour to set my first stickful, a dozen lines.
If you scoop a stickful up and then tap the stick smartly on the edge of the pot, most of it will fall off the 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.
Word Forms
- stickfuls
- sticksful
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include stick, take, sheetful, paperful, factotum, reamful.
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