stick-built

[ stik-bilt ]

adjective

1. built piece-by-piece at the construction site, as opposed to factory-built.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stick-built¹

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

Close behind my post, a huge stick-built nest filled a small ilex.

From Project Gutenberg

We climbed along the ledges and there were the great stick-built nests, each in its ancestral site.

From Project Gutenberg

Two huge stick-built nests stand out in visible projection from crevices in the crag, some forty yards apart.

From Project Gutenberg