fore-stickn.
/ˈfɔːstɪk/, U.S. /ˈfɔrˌstɪk/ U.S.
The front stick lying on the andirons in a wood fire.
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1793 Massachusetts Spy 7 Mar. He found his companion lying in a large body of live coals, her head on the backlog and knees on the forestick.
a1800 Spirit of Farmer's Museum (1801) 167 I kicked over my forestick, and saw by this man's uneasy countenance that he must be no more nor less than a Jacobin.
1821 Z. Hawley Tour 21 Jan. (1822) 44 In the room of andirons, many families make use of what are here called chunks, which are the two brands of a large forestick, or billets of wood cut on purpose for this use.
1845 S. Judd Margaret i. xvii. 158 A great fire, composed of a huge green back log, a large green forestick.
1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xxiv. 429 The doctor and Aunt Catherine were sitting before the deep wood-fire..the doctor trying to read a newspaper and punching the forestick.
1878 H. B. Stowe Poganuc People ix. 71 Backlog and forestick were soon piled.
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