noun
stick
STIK/stˈɪk/
A long, thin piece of wood or other material.
The slender stick retains its bark and one small side twig.
Etymology
Old English sticca meant a twig or slender branch. Its deeper ancestry may point to a sharp stick, perhaps one sharpened for a particular purpose.
In context
you have nothing to show but that poor miserable stick which you might have cut in any hedge
More examples
- The children gathered dry sticks for the fire.
- He stirred the paint with a wooden stick.
- A walking stick helped her on the steep path.
Forms
stick · sticks
Similar words
- rod
- Usually straighter and more deliberately shaped than a natural stick.
- branch
- A branch is a growing or detached part of a tree rather than any slender stick.