noun

• An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
  "I found enough sticks in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed."
• An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
  "When cutting the door parts, I cut all the copes first, then the sticks."
• An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
• An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
  "We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture."

verb

• (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
• (transitive, printing, slang, dated) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
  "to stick type"
• (transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.

noun

• (uncountable) The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
• (uncountable) The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
• (uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
• (uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
  "Problem: A lot of stick and a lack of energy on the forward stroke."

verb

• (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
  "The tape will not stick if it melts."
• (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
  "The lever sticks if you push it too far up."
• (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
  ""I've had ten years of it, scratching enough out of it to dress and feed myself when the going's good and sharing a room with a girl friend or pigging it in some cheap boarding-house, and doing a perish when I've been out of a job. I've got to the point where I can't stick it any longer. I'd get out tomorrow if I could find something else to do.""
• (intransitive) To persist.
  "His old nickname stuck."