The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue dates from 1811 and this is probably the only full, uncensored and searchable version of this dictionary on the internet. All the original crudities have been restored and it offers an interesting perspective on Common English from the time of the Regency and Jane Austen.

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Entries releated to STICKS

 

BECALMED		A piece of sea wit, sported in hot weather. I am becalmed, the sail sticks to the mast; that is, my shirt sticks to my back. His prad is becalmed; his horse knocked up.
CANDLESTICKS		Bad, small, or untunable bells. Hark! how the candlesticks rattle.
CAT STICKS		Thin legs, compared to sticks with which boys play at cat. See TRAPSTICKS.
DRUMMER		A jockey term for a horse that throws about his fore legs irregularly: the idea is taken from a kettle drummer, who in beating makes many flourishes with his drumsticks.
FIDDLESTICK'S END		Nothing; the end of the ancient fiddlesticks ending in a point; hence metaphorically used to express a thing terminating in nothing.
IRISH APRICOTS		Potatoes. It is a common joke against the Irish vessels, to say they are loaded with fruit and timber, that is, potatoes and broomsticks. Irish assurance; a bold forward behaviour: as being dipt in the river Styx was formerly supposed to render persons invulnerable, so it is said that a dipping in the river Shannon totally annihilates bashfulness; whence arises the saying of an impudent Irishman, that he has been dipt in the Shannon.
KITTYS		Effects, furniture; stock in trade. To seize one's kittys; to take his sticks.
STICKS		Household furniture.
STICKS		Pops or pistols. Stow your sticks; hide your pistols. See POPS.
TRAP STICKS		Thin legs, gambs: from the sticks with which boys play at trap-ball.
WIN		To steal. The cull has won a couple of rum glimsticks; the fellow has stolen a pair of fine candlesticks.