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A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle.

Candlestick. [Obs.] Shak.

A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat or tipcat. Massinger.

One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.

A stick or switch used among some American Indians in making or counting a coup.

A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the carb tree.

A stick with which a drum is beaten.

The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.

Front stick of a hearth fire.

A stick or device for removing the hook from a fish's gullet.

A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod. [R.]

Struck with horror; horrified. Blank and horror-stricken faces. C. Kingsley.

One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trades union. [Cant, Eng.]

See Maul-stick.

A stick used by painters as a rest for the hand while working. [Written also mahl-stick.]

A stick, carved with lines and dots, used, esp. by Australian aborigines, to convey information.

The long handle of a mop.

A painter's maul-stick.

Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians. [Colloq.] Tackeray.