Definitions for stickful

stickful stick·ful

Spelling: [stik-foo l]
IPA: /ˈstɪkˌfʊl/

Stickful is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 210 anagrams from letters in stickful (cfiklstu).

Definitions for stickful

noun

  1. as much set type as a composing stick will hold, usually about two column inches.

Origin of stickful

First recorded in 1675-85; stick1 + -ful

Examples for stickful

All that was worthy of preservation remained in what the printer calls a "stickful."

With the opening installment of the first serial the Free Press published a photograph of the author over a stickful of biography.

Nort walked over to the stone, took up a stickful of type, and began to distribute it in the cases.

The reporter presents himself at the city desk, tells what he has got, and is told by the city editor, “Write a stickful.”

When he had set a dozen lines—more or less—he had a “stickful.”

Not a soul about the place, no copy, not a stickful of live matter on the galleys!

stickful after stickful was arranged, until a page of type lay there.

Word Value for stickful
Scrable

17

Words with friends

20

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