Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In a camp, the stick or pole on which the kettle is suspended over the fire.
- noun A stick for stirring porridge, etc.
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Examples
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They had put meal in the water, and I began to stir it with a pot-stick.
The King of Ireland's Son Padraic Colum 1926
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Another of the band carried a sword, another a club, and another a pot-stick, and all were horned as Pocahontas.
England in America, 1580-1652 Lyon Gardiner Tyler 1894
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