Stick

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A stick is a long, slender piece of wood, usually a branch from a tree, generally without the leaves. Usually after being refined (e.g. smoothened, polished, varnished or painted), a stick may be used as:

Chopsticks, an eating utensil
Rod, cane, or hickory stick, disciplinary implements
Pointing stick, an indicator
Swagger stick, a formal attribute
Club (weapon) or staff (stick), weapons
tally stick, a marking medium
walking stick, a mobility aid
Fire stick, a stick for making fire

By analogy and metonymy, the term applies to objects of similar shape:

a stick of dynamite
Joy stick, a computer game controller
Prayer stick
Polo stick, hockey stick, etc. in sports
Memory stick, a device for storing digital information
Stick shift, automobile transmission

Stick may also refer to:

Stick (unit), an ancient unit of length (2 inch ≈ 5 cm), cfr. in yard (stick)
Silver Stick and Gold Stick, certain functions named after a ceremonial attribute
a group of 12 paratroopers
a line of infantry in a landing craft (usually 2 per craft)
a clapstick, a musical instrument that traditionally accompanies the didgeridoo
a Led Zeppelin album (see Led Zeppelin IV)
the Chapman Stick is a musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s
Stick (comics), a character in Marvel Comics, predominantly Daredevil
a type of Victorian architecture also sometimes referred to as Stick-Eastlake
a movie featuring Burt Reynolds and music by Anne Murray
Australian euphemism for approximately one metric gram of marijuana
the term sticks is slang for (especially woody) rural terrain
a scroll (rolled around a stick), e.g., the Stick of Joseph from Ezekiel 37:16
a stick insect
Nickname for former baseball infielder and manager Gene Michael

The verb 'to stick' (to prick or to attach to something, like glue does) is cognate.

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