forestick
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of forestick
Example Sentences
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"That 's so every time!" he would say, with a lunge at the forestick.
From The Village Watch-Tower by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
They brought in the materials for an old-fashioned fire, backlog, forestick, and crowsticks, and presently seated themselves before a crackling blaze.
From A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches by Sarah Orne Jewett
Over the blaze of backlog and forestick, and something like half a cord of "eight-foot wood," are swinging the iron cranes laden with great kettles of melting tallow.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various
There was a large forestick lying across the andirons, with a burning bed of coals below.
From Stuyvesant A Franconia Story by Jacob Abbott
The dry forestick lying on the rude stone andirons burst into a blaze.
From The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana by Edward Eggleston
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