(a) A twig or slender branch on a living bush, shrub, or tree; (b) a twig or slender branch cut or broken off from a bush, shrub, or tree; also, a fragment of wood, splinter; hasel ~; heuen to stikkes, to hew (a standard) to fragments, chop into splinters; (c) a small piece of wood, a branch, twig, etc. used as fuel for a fire; a piece of kindling; also fig.; also in proverbs; (d) in conventional comparisons.

(a) A wooden pole, rod; one of three rods used as a support for a pot [last quot.]; a pole or rod from which birds or fish offered for sale are hung; also, ?a pole used as a target [quot. ?a1475]; (b) a staff, cudgel; ~ and ston; (c) a notched piece of wood used for recording financial transactions, a tally; (d) a piece of timber cut and trimmed for use in building, fencing, etc.; a stave, stake, board, paling; also, a stick or timber as a constituent part of a structure, town, etc.; -- freq. used in adverbial phrases denoting comprehensiveness of construction, destruction, conquest, etc.: ech a ~, everi ~ (and ston, every stick (and stone, completely, totally; ~ and stour, stick and stave, every bit, completely.

(a) A small stick of wood used as an implement or a tool for various purposes; also, an implement or a tool of metal or wood more or less resembling a stick; a stylus; a pot stirrer; a drumstick [quot. a1398]; a bow [quot. a1425(?a1400)]; a wedge-shaped piece of metal used in the hinge of a hung door [quot. a1425 Gloss.Bibbesw.]; candel ~ [see also candel-stikke n.]; hasel ~; pot ~ [see also pot-stikke n.]; turninge ~, a curved stick used by a cobbler to turn a shoe right side out after it is sewn; (b) a utensil, perh. orig. a stick or made from a stick: a spoon; also, a brush, in cpd.: holi water ~, a brush for sprinkling holy water, an aspergillum; ~ ful, a unit of measure, a spoonful; (c) ~ of cinamome, a rolled piece of cinnamon bark resembling a stick.

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