stickful

[stik-fool]

noun

Printing.

plural

stickfuls 

1. as much set type as a composing stick will hold, usually about two column inches.

Spelling Note

See -ful.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stickful¹

First recorded in 1675–85; stick ¹ + -ful

Example Sentences

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.

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Otherwise the decease of consuls at their posts rarely makes more than a stickful of home news.

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When he had set a dozen lines—more or less—he had a “stickful.”

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