Word Meanings - GOBSTICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stick or device for removing the hook from a fish's gullet. He . . . wrenched out the hook with the short wooden stick he called a "gobstick." Kipling. 2. A spoon. [Prov. Eng. or Slang]

• Spoonworm
  A gephyrean worm of the genus Thalassema, having a spoonlike probiscis.
• Stickler
  One who stickles.
• SHORTHANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Short-handed
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• Slanging
  of Slang
• Spoonwort
  Scurvy grass.
• Stick-seed
  A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.
• SHORTJOINTED
  Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Shortage
  Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.
• Shorthead
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• Slanginess
  Quality of being slangy.
• Spoony
  Same as Spooney.
• Sticktail
  The ruddy duck.
• SHORTLIVED
  Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion.

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