_:vb6829695 . _:vb6829696 . _:vb6829697 . _:vb6829695 "(slang, dated) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)"@en . . _:vb6829697 "1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, \u201CChapter 7\u201D, in Emily of New Moon:"@en . _:vb6829696 "1967, Maurice Shadbolt, The Presence of Music: Three Novellas, page 54:"@en . _:vb6829697 "\u201C [\u2026] He\u2019s a good doctor but an odd stick\u2014odder by far than I am, Emily, and yet nobody ever says he\u2019s not all there. Can you account for that? He doesn\u2019t believe in God\u2014and I am not such a fool as that.\u201D"@en . _:vb6829696 "Your father's a great old stick. He's really been very good to me."@en . "7" .