stickful
noun
as much set type as a composing stick will hold, usually about two column inches.
stickfuls
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pluralof stickful.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He spiels off two or three stickfuls and then stops.
From The House of Torchy by Brown, Arthur William
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 Stevens, William Dodge
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 Hyde, Grant Milnor
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 Hyde, Grant Milnor
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 Henry, O.
