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stickful
[ stik-fool ]
noun
, Printing.
, plural stick·fuls.
- as much set type as a composing stick will hold, usually about two column inches.
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Spelling Note
See -ful.
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Example Sentences
The reporter presents himself at the city desk, tells what he has got, and is told by the city editor, “Write a stickful.”
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Nort walked over to the stone, took up a stickful of type, and began to distribute it in the cases.
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Stickful after stickful was arranged, until a page of type lay there.
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All that was worthy of preservation remained in what the printer calls a "stickful."
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Not a soul about the place, no copy, not a stickful of live matter on the galleys!
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