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Definition of Sticks and stone
1. Noun. A general term for building materials.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sticks And Stone
Literary usage of Sticks and stone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"With sticks and stone», says Rohm to Bobbin ; With sticks and stones, says Richard
to Robin ; With sticks and stones, says Jack o' th' land ; With sticks ..."
2. Primitive Love and Love-stories by Henry Theophilus Finck (1899)
"On such occasions they may often resort to stone-throwing, or even use fire-sticks
and stone- knives with which to mutilate the genitals. ..."
3. Old Testament History by Henry Preserved Smith (1903)
"They are sticks and stone?, behind which is no spiritual power of any kind.
Scorn and contempt for these manufactured articles breathe in every passage ..."
4. An Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navaho Language by Franciscans, St. Michaels, Ariz (1910)
"... belts, silverware, blankets and rugs, over which a generous layer of dirt,
sticks and stone is built to protect it from disturbance by wild animals. ..."
5. Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa by Robert Moffat (1844)
"This was a narrow escape; for if a horse had fallen, which is common in the dark,
amidst bushes, sticks, and stone*, he and his rider would have been ..."
6. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1912)
"Duckweed abounds here, and a quantity of green algae cover the sticks and stone
of the bottom; the pool swarms with Culex and Anopheles punctipennis larvae; ..."
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