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stick ((2))
[< Chinook Jargon stik wood, tree, forest]
B.C. and Northwest
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
woods; bush.
Quotations
<i>c</i>1857
One night this young woman suddenly appeared and said in a subdued voice, "Hist! ... Before sun up you white men go. Go back in the stick (forests) far, far, far."
2n.
(attributive uses) of, related to, or located in the stick country.
See: stick country
Quotations
1951
Now you fellows figure we're stuck, but let me tell you a real stick man's never stuck.
1955
He was batching it out on this lonely, stick ranch.