A thin piece of wood, often from a branch, that you can hold or use as a tool.
From Old English “sticca,” meaning a small piece of wood. It is related to a verb form meaning to pierce or stab with something pointed.
A simple stick has been one of humanity’s oldest tools—for walking, hunting, writing in the dirt, and even measuring. The same word also became the verb “to stick,” meaning to attach, because early glue was literally sticky tree sap on sticks.
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