(military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
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Scores of transport planes streamed in to drop stick after stick of containers until the entire sky over the coast was polka-dotted with brightly coloured parachutes.
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2001, Raymond Mitchell, Commando Despatch Rider, →ISBN, page 70:
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A stick of bombs fell straight across Wotton; blew up half a dozen houses.
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2006, Farley Mowat, Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World, →ISBN, page 200:
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James and I were in the same stick of five guys going through free fall school last September.
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2006, Holly Aho, From Here to There, →ISBN, page 48: