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stickful
[ stik-fool ]
noun
Printing.
plural stickfuls.
- 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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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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