Stick

1. v. t. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
2. v. t. A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.
3. v. t. Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick.
4. v. t. Anything shaped like a stick; as, a stick of wax.
5. v. t. A derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or stupid; as, an odd stick; a poor stick.
6. v. t. A composing stick. See under Composing. It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is used.
7. n. To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale; as, to stick an apple on a fork.
8. n. To attach by causing to adhere to the surface; as, to stick on a plaster; to stick a stamp on an envelope; also, to attach in any manner.
9. n. To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick; as, to stick type.
10. n. To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such moldings are said to be stuck.
11. 1v. t. 1 A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
12. 1v. t. 1 A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.