stick-built
[ stik-bilt ]
adjective(of a house or other structure)
built piece-by-piece at the construction site, as opposed to factory-built.
Origin of stick-built
1First recorded in 1835–45
Words Nearby stick-built
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How to use stick-built in a sentence
Close behind my post, a huge stick-built nest filled a small ilex.
Unexplored Spain | Abel ChapmanWe climbed along the ledges and there were the great stick-built nests, each in its ancestral site.
Unexplored Spain | Abel ChapmanTwo huge stick-built nests stand out in visible projection from crevices in the crag, some forty yards apart.
Unexplored Spain | Abel Chapman
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