stickful

American  

[stik-fool] / ˈstɪkˌfʊl /

noun

Printing.

stickfuls plural

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

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Spelling

See -ful.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• stickfuls
  plural

Etymology

Origin of stickful

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

Example Sentences

You know, they send in a little stickful of who spent the day with whom, and who's shingling his barn.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

"But about the Belmount mix-up: you will give us a stickful now and then as we go along, if you unearth anything that the public would like to read?"

From The Grafters by Lynde, Francis

Its special telegraphic reports were meagre and averaged no more than a "stickful" daily, and it was cut off from the privileges of the Associated Press dispatches.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 by Various