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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
stick .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
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A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
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Don't sticketh thou head to closeth to squishy looking tube things.
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On my clothes still sticketh the moss from yon Buddhistic court.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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Christ with the 12 Apostles, but their faces are defaced, with two or three ancient tombs of Christians: to the West sticketh an arrow in the toppe of the Church, which, as the Turks report, Sultan
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.
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And when he saw that he was from the field nigh a mile, that he was sure he might not be seen, then he said with an high voice: O gentle knight, Sir Lavaine, help me that this truncheon were out of my side, for it sticketh so sore that it nigh slayeth me.
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Then was Arthur wroth, and said to himself, I will ride to the churchyard, and take the sword with me that sticketh in the stone, for my brother Sir Kay shall not be without a sword this day.
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A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18. 1999
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Like men in the mire, whilst they pluck one leg out, the other sticketh faster in, -- whilst you relieve yourselves in one thing, you will be more hampered in another.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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