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▪ I. sticking, vbl. n.1|ˈstɪkɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
1. The action of stick v.1
a. The action of piercing or stabbing, or of thrusting (a weapon, tool, etc.) into or through something.
a1400–50Wars Alex. 2623 Þare was stomling of stedis, sticking of erles [etc.]. c1440Promp. Parv. 475/2 Stykynge in beestes, jugulacio. 1823Scott Quentin D. xviii, Although the doing such a deed were as ignoble as the sticking of swine. 1896Harper's Mag. Apr. 772/1 The enemy received our bayonet attack up to within three paces; then began the sticking.
b. Fixing or fastening in position. Also with on, etc.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. 954 A whit wal, al-though it ne brenne noght fully by stikynge of a candele, yet is the wal blak of the leyt. c1440Promp. Parv. 475/2 Stykynge, or festynge to, confixio, fixura.
c. The action of setting a surface with something; † garnishing (of meat); setting (of cotton or wool cards) with teeth.
1633Hart Diet of Diseased i. xxii. 101 The Clove..is very much used in the kitchin both for sauces, and sticking of meat. 1794Morse Amer. Geog. 332 [There] are made yearly about 7000 dozen of cotton and wool cards... The sticking of these cards employs not less than 1000 people.
d. The process or condition of adhering.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Apegamiento, sticking to, cleauing to, adhaesio, conglutinatio. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc, Printing xi. ⁋23 They..try its consistence by sticking together of their Finger and Thumb. 1719London & Wise Compl. Gard. v. 86 As for the sticking to the Stone in Plumbs, 'tis not worth minding. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. lviii, To move, like the limpet, by an apparent sticking which after a good while is discerned to be a slight progression. 1910N. Hawkins' Electr. Dict., Sticking, in telegraphy, a tendency of the relay to cling to the pole of its magnet after the current is broken.
e. Hesitation, scruple, delay; an instance of this; also a cause of hesitation or delay. Now rare or Obs.
1528Gardiner in Pocock Rec. Ref. I. l. 104 To the intent we might the better discipher the very lett and sticking. 1578T. P. Knowl. Warres 19 The Souldiour..must be tractable, and obedient to the commaundement of his Captayne, and that without styckinge. a1631Donne Let. v. Poems, etc. (1633) 364 And as to that life, all stickings and hesitations seeme stupid and stony, so to this [etc.]. 1725Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 201 My landlord is reflected on for sticking; and I believe, if he had not been ill treated and fretted, all had been easy.
f. Coming to a stand; being unable to proceed.
1570T. Wilson tr. Demosthenes Pref. **j b, That such as bee not learned, may the rather go thorow with the reading of these Orations without any sticking at all. 1730T. Boston Life xii. (1908) 315 My matter coming to me as I wrote..: if at any time I walked, it was occasioned by my sticking.
g. Of a batsman: Continuance at the wicket or ‘in’ by means of ultra-defensive play.
1901R. H. Lyttelton Outdoor Games vi. 122 If the wicket is to be enlarged I should prefer it in this form, though ‘sticking’ would be even greater than it is now.
h. sticking-up. Australian. The action of stopping (a conveyance or person) on the highway for robbery. Also attrib.
1855Melbourne Argus 18 Jan. 5/4 [Witness] said he was coming from Richmond on the night of the robbery, and saw a sticking-up case. 1893Mrs. C. Praed Outlaw & Lawm. I. 28 The sticking-up of the Goondi coach.
2. concr.
a. Mining. = selvage 5.
1747Hooson Miner's Dict. U 1, All Scrins, and smaller Kind of Veins, that afford not Shoulder Room, their width between the Sides may be called the Sticking, and this is the common Name that we Miners give to all of that Size. 1789T. Williams Min. Kingd. I. 13 A blackish soft sticking of clay, perhaps not above half an inch thick. 1875J. H. Collins Metal Mining 26 The country on each side is frequently much altered, ‘mineralised’ as miners say. This altered band..is variously known as capel, stickings, selvage, and..other names.
b. pl. ‘Coarse, bruised, inferior meat; spec. the portions damaged by the butcher's knife’ (Farmer).
Cf. sticking-piece; also sticking-bit, -part, in 3.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 196 The meat (for pies) is bought in ‘pieces’, of the same part as the sausage-makers purchase—the stickings. 1894West Sussex County Times 17 Mar. 4/6 The Guardians are desirous of receiving Tenders..for..Meat, Consisting of Beef (thick flanks, and clods, and stickings) free from bone.
3. attrib. and Comb.
1869J. P. Morris Furness Gloss., *Stickin'-bit, the neck-end of mutton.
1875Carpentry & Join. 6 *Sticking boards used in planing up sash bars.
1885Lock Workshop Rec. Ser. iv. 3/1 This [coat] is usually a different mixture..and is called a ‘*sticking-coat’, its object being to secure adhesion between the fabric and the rubber.
1688Holme Armoury iii. 87/2 The *Sticking Draught, is a part of the Breast [of an ox] when it is cut long-ways, over cross the bones.
1495–6in Finchale Priory Charters etc. (Surtees) p. cccxciv, iij *stekyngknyffze.
1909N. Hawkins' Mech. Dict., *Sticking Machine, a woodworking machine, forming straight mouldings by means of rotary cutters.
1881Daily News 3 Sept. 2/5 My father had in three fore-quarters of beef. When the officer came in I was trimming up the *sticking parts.
1733W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 238 This sort of Ground by its *sticking Quality, will more easily fasten about and hold the Beans.
▪ II. sticking, vbl. n.2
[f. stick v.2 + -ing1.]
1. The action of stick v.2
1828Carlyle Let. 10 June in Froude Life (1882) II. ii. 26 Alas! Jack, there is no sticking of peas for me at this hour.
2. In pl. Sticks (for peas); more explicitly pea-stickings.
1800Parish Acc. Much Wenlock 5 May in Miss Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. (1879) s.v., Paid John Wall for Stickings, &c., 0–2–3. 1841Hartshorne Salop. Ant. s.v. Swite, Switing pea-stickings.
▪ III. sticking, ppl. a.|ˈstɪkɪŋ|
[f. stick v.1 + -ing2.]
That sticks, in the senses of the verb.
1. That pierces or pricks (obs.); dial. of an animal, that gores.
c1230Hali Meid 35 (MS. Titus) Þat sar sorhfule angoise þat stronge & stikinde [v.r. stinkinde] stiche. 1577Kendall Flowers of Epigr. 89 b, By stickyng spurre doest seke to sturre thy steede. 1614Gorges Lucan vii. 286 No sooner did their palfries feele, Within their brest the sticking steele, But [etc.]. 1843Richardson's Borderer's Table-bk., Leg. Div. I. 106 Should the sticking bull o' the Stobbs com down amang the kye.
2. That adheres.
1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 144 They say far more..then the most notorious scorners were wont to do; and that not in a bare scorn, which is less sticking, but in serious slanders. 1883J. Parker Tyne Chylde 86 It's a sticking leech you have laid on me. 1908Westm. Gaz. 9 June 4/2 [The] Mercédès..suffered from a sticking valve.
3. That projects. Only with advs. † off, out, up.
1834C. M. Yonge Let. 4 July in C. Coleridge Charlotte Mary Yonge (1903) iv. 123 There were two great sticking-out boxes like pulpits. 1843C. Ridley Let. Feb. in U. Ridley Cecilia (1958) x. 118 Really it will be tiresome if he grows up with large, sticking-off ears. 1848Curzon Visit. Monast. iv. vii. (1897) 301 The sticking-up legs of the subverted table. 1892C. M. Yonge That Stick I. ii. 32 She had such horrid sticking-out ears. 1902R. Bagot Donna Diana viii. 98 The women with their great feet..and sticking-out teeth!
4. Special collocations: sticking-grass = cleavers; † sticking medicine (see quot.); sticking silk = court-plaster.
1671Salmon Syn. Med. iii. xxvii. 471 Dropax, is a sticking Medicine, so called from Pitch, used with other sticking ingredients. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) I. 18 Having found the wound, she put a small bit of black sticking silk to the orifice. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 942 The seed of the sticking-grass, or cleavers. |