fore-stick U.S.
(ˈfɔəstɪk)
[f. fore- prefix.]
The front stick lying on the andirons in a wood fire.
| 1793 Massachusetts Spy 7 Mar. (Th.), He found his companion lying in a large body of live coals, her head on the backlog and knees on the forestick. 1821 [see chunk n.1 1 b]. 1872 O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. i. (1885) 26 The fore⁓stick and back-log of ancient days. 1878 Mrs. Stowe Poganuc P. ix. 71 Backlog and forestick were soon piled. |