sticking1 (stiking)

[Verbal n. of stick1, v.] The act of stabbing or piercing. ( a ) The act of thrusting a knife or spear into the neck or body of a beast. Hence-(b) pl. The part of a beast's neck where it is stabbed by the butcher; a coarse and cheap cut of beef or pork. The meat is bought in "pieces," of the same part as the sausage-makers purchase-the stickings - at about 3d. the pound. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, I. 196. (c) Stitching; needlework. [Scotch, in the form steeking .] The cloth of it was satin fine, And the steeking silken wark. The Jolly Goshawk (Child's Ballads, III. 289). sticking2 (stik'ing), n. [Verbal n. of stick2 , v.] 1. The act of coming to a stop. Compare stick ing - place . The water runs down with a strong, sharp stickle , and then has a sudden elbow in it, where the small brook trickles in. R. D. Black more , Lorna Doone, vii. [Prov. Eng. in all uses.] stickle3 (stik'l), v.; pret. and pp. stickled, ppr. stickling. [A mod. var. of stightle, which also appears (with a reg. change of the orig. guttural gh to f) as stiffle: see stightle. In defs. II., 2, 3, the sense has been influenced by a ociation with stick2.] I.t trans. To interpose in and put a stop to; mediate between; pacify. They ran unto him, and pulling him back, then too feeble for them, by force stickled that unnatural fray. Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, i. II. in trans. 11. To interpose between combatants and separate them; mediate; arbitrate. There had been blood shed if I had not stickled . W. Cartwright , The Ordinary (Hazlitt's Dodsley, XII. 275). 2. To take part with one side or the other; uphold one party to a dispute. Fortune (as she's wont) turn'd fickle, And for the foe began to stickle. S. Butler , Hudibras, I. iii. 516. You, Bellmour, are bound in Gratitude to stickle for him; you with Pleasure reap that Fruit which he takes pains to sow. Congreve, Old Batchelor, i. 4. 3. To contest or contend pertinaciously on insufficient grounds; insist upon some trifle. I hear no news about your bishops, farther than that the lord lieutenant stickles to have them of Ireland. Swift , Letter, May 13, 1727. All stickings and hesitations seem stupid and stony. Donne , Letters, iv. Specifically -2. pl . The last of a cow's milk; strippings. [Prov. ov. Eng.] sticking-place (stik'ing-plās), n. The point where anything sticks, stays, or stops; a place 4. To hesitate. of stay. Which flower out of my hand shall never pa e, But in my heart shall have a sticking - place . Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions (1578), quoted in [Furne 's Variorum Shakespeare, Macbeth. But screw your courage to the sticking - place , And we'll not fail. Shak., Macbeth, i. 7. 60.