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setting-stick
1. A stick used for making holes for ‘setting’ or planting. Now dial.
1556Withals Dict. (1562) 19 b, A dibell or settynge sticke, pastinum. 1658Evelyn Fr. Gard. (1675) 233 Plant them with the setting-stick, or dibber. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. vii. §4 (1681) 121 Make the holes with an ordinary Setting-stick. 1793Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) V. 54 The plant is then to be planted with a setting-stick so that the upper part of the root shall appear about half an inch out of the ground. 1817–8Cobbett Resid. U.S. (1822) 66 A setting-stick which should be the top of a spade-handle cut off, about ten inches below the eye. 1886Cheshire Gloss., Setting-stick, a short pointed stick, used for planting cabbages.
†2. A rod used for stiffening the plaits or ‘sets’ of ruffs, a poking-stick. Obs.
1575Laneham Let. (1871) 37 Marshalld in good order: wyth a stetting [sic] stick, and stoout, that euery ruff stood vp like a wafer. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. 36 They haue also another instrument called a setting sticke,..and with this they set their ruffes. 1615Howes Stow's Chron. 948/2 About the sixteenth yeere of the Queene, began the making of steele poking-stickes, and vntill that time all Lawndresses vsed setting stickes, made of wood, or bone. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. ii. (iii.) iii. 568 Pots, glasses, oyntments, irons, combes, bodkins, setting stickes.
3. A composing-stick.
1875Southward Dict. Typogr. (ed. 2) 123. |