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

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stickful stickfuls

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

All that was worthy of preservation remained in what the printer calls a "stickful."

From Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists by Asa Don Dickinson

"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 Francis Lynde

Copy-readers yelled frantically through tubes, and received columns of proofs which, under the ruthless slaughter of their blue pencils, returned as "stickfuls," that room might be made for the great story.

From The Clarion by William Dodge Stevens

The weather is taken as the excuse for two or three stickfuls of print which explain and comment upon weather conditions, past, present and future.

From Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing by Grant Milnor Hyde

It is irksome work and difficult work to condense an hour's talk into three stickfuls, and few reporters know exactly how to go about it.

From Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing by Grant Milnor Hyde

He spiels off two or three stickfuls and then stops.

From The House of Torchy by Arthur William Brown

McClintock waves his hand affectionately at one of his mules, and then hurls a few stickfuls of minion type at the mob of shoppers.

From Options by O. Henry