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Sticking-place. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2024. Sticking-place [STICKING vbl. sb.]

1   1.  A place in which to stick (something). rare.

2 1578.  T. Proctor, Gorg. Gallery, P iiij. Which flower, out of my hand shall neuer passe, But in my harte, shall haue a sticking place.

3   2.  The place in which a thing stops and holds fast.

4   Only in echoes of the Shaks. example, in which the allusion seems to be to the screwing-up of the peg of a musical instrument until it becomes tightly fixed in the hole.

5 1605.  Shaks., Macb., I. vii. 60. But screw your courage to the sticking place, And wee’le not fayle.

6 1829.  Southey, Sir T. More (1831), II. 136. His rent having been already screwed to the sticking-place.

7 1883.  E. R. Russell, in Fortn. Rev., 1 Oct., 473. But she [Lady Macbeth] recognised the weak fibre in him, and saw that she must keep him to the sticking-place.

8   3.  The lower part of the neck, the JUGULUM. † a. of the human body (obs.). b. of a beast (see quot. 1886).

9 1615.  Crooke, Body of Man, 361. The trunke of the hollow vein from the heart to the Iugulum or Sticking-place.

10 1886.  W. Somerset Word-bk., Sticking-place, the point in an animal’s throat where the knife is stuck.

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