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stickful

[ stik-fool ]

noun

Printing.
plural stickfuls.
  1. as much set type as a composing stick will hold, usually about two column inches.


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Spelling Note

See -ful.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of stickful1

First recorded in 1675–85; stick 1 + -ful
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Slogging up and down the riverbank in trousers wet to the knees, his Bible in one hand and another stickful of fire-blackened fish in the other, he waved his bounty in a threatening manner.

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“Written a pretty fair stickful—or so my daughter tells me,†Mr. Parker smiled undisturbed.

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You know, they send in a little stickful of who spent the day with whom, and who's shingling his barn.

Otherwise the decease of consuls at their posts rarely makes more than a stickful of home news.

When he had set a dozen lines—more or less—he had a “stickful.â€

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