Word Meanings - POKING-STICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak.

Related words: (words related to POKING-STICK)

• STICK-LAC
  See LAC
• STEELING
  The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
• STEELHEAD
  A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
• STEELINESS
  The quality of being steely.
• STICKING
  a. & n. from Stick, v. Sticking piece, a piece of beef cut from the neck. -- Sticking place, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. Shak. --
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• STICKFUL
  As much set type as fills a composing stick.
• STICKTAIL
  The ruddy duck.
• STICK
  A composing stick. See under Composing. It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is used. 6. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab. A stick of eels, twenty-five eels. -- Stick chimney, a chimney made
• STICKLEBACK
  Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling,
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• STEELY
  1. Made of steel; consisting of steel. "The steely point of Clifford's lance." Shak. Around his shop the steely sparkles flew. Gay. 2. Resembling steel; hard; firm; having the color of steel. "His hair was steely gray." The Century. She would unarm
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• STEELYARD
  A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm indicating
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• ADJUSTING PLANE; ADJUSTING SURFACE
  A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.
• STEELER
  One who points, edges, or covers with steel.
• STICKINESS
  The quality of being sticky; as, the stickiness of glue or paste.
• CARBON STEEL
  Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.
• UNSTEEL
  To disarm; to soften. Richardson.
• POKING-STICK
  A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak.
• LOW STEEL
  See LOW
• PIG-STICKING
  Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians. Tackeray.
• NICKEL STEEL
  A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used for armor plate, bicycle tubing, propeller shafts, etc.
• FORESTICK
  Front stick of a hearth fire.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• BESSEMER STEEL
  Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• CHOPSTICK
  One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.
• MISADJUSTMENT
  Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.