stickful

American  

[stik-fool] / ˈstɪkˌfʊl /

noun

Printing.

plural

stickfuls

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

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Spelling

See -ful.

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

The Brief Summary Story.—This is the little story of a stickful or less, which merely announces the result of some distant or unimportant game.

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

If the paper runs a few columns of social news and the persons concerned in the wedding are of any importance socially, the wedding may be given a stickful.

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