sticking placen.
/ˈstɪkɪŋ pleɪs/, U.S. /ˈstɪkɪŋ ˌpleɪs/ 1. † b. A cheap cut of beef from the lower part of the neck (where the slaughtering knife has entered); = sticking piece n. Obsolete.
a. In later use chiefly U.S. The point at the base of the neck of an animal where the knife is thrust in, either to slaughter or bleed the animal; the lower part of the neck or throat. Cf. jugulum n.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > lower part of neck
sticking place1577
jugulum1826
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 133v Then cut the Dewlappe two inches behinde the sticking place, to the brestwarde. [No corresponding sentence in the Latin original.]
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 361 The trunke of the hollow vein from the heart to the Iugulum or Sticking-place.
1753 T. Richards Antiquæ Linguæ Britannicæ Thes. Llindag, the throat, the neck, the sticking-place.
1847 Spirit of Times 2 Jan. 530/3 Rushing up close I fired, striking the bear in the ‘sticking place’ as he had one dog in his deadly hug.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Sticking-place, the point in an animal's throat where the knife is stuck.
1890 Forest & Stream 25 Dec. 450/1 I pulled [the trigger], sending a small, sharp cone of lead directly into ‘the sticking place’.
1935 E. Hemingway Green Hills Afr. v. 103 ‘I can bust him right in the sticking place,’ I whispered.
1968 News (Frederick, Maryland) 11 Dec. c1 He inserts the skinning knife..into the sticking place and cuts up through the full length of the breastbone.
1999 D. Guterson East of Mountains iv. 68 Pointing with the tip of his dressing knife, he showed them the sticking place on the buck's soft chest.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > beef > [noun] > other cuts or parts
tild1342
ox foota1398
oxtaila1425
neat's foot?c1450
beef-flick1462
sticking piece1469
ox-tonguea1475
aitch-bone1486
fore-crop?1523
sirloin1525
mouse-piece1530
ox-cheek1592
neat's tongue1600
clod1601
sticking place1601
skink1631
neck beef1640
round1660
ox-heart1677
runner1688
sticking draught1688
brisket-beef1697
griskin1699
sey1719
chuck1723
shin1736
gravy beef1747
baron of beef1755
prime rib1759
rump and dozen1778
mouse buttock1818
slifta1825
nine holes1825
spauld-piece1828
trembling-piece1833
shoulder-lyar1844
butt1845
plate1854
plate-rand1854
undercut1859
silver-side1861
bed1864
wing rib1883
roll1884
strip-loin1884
hind1892
topside1896
rib-eye1926
buttock meat1966
onglet1982
1601 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 289 They [sc. yeomen] and the two groomes..have for their fee the sticking place, the flanke, and the rumpes endes of every oxe slaughtered in that office.
1861 E. F. Haskell Housekeeper's Encycl. i. viii. 37 Sticking place, between the chuck ribs and cheek.
1883 Amer. Farm & Home Cycl. 796 The piece called the sticking-place is usually boiled for mince pies.
2. A place where something sticks or is stuck; esp. (with allusion to quot. a1616) a point where something, esp. courage, has reached a maximum and can increase no further. Cf. sticking point n.Shakespeare's metaphorical use in quot. a1616 seems to allude to the turning of a peg or screw until it becomes tightly fixed.
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the world > space > place > [noun] > of which the position alone is considered > in which to stick something
sticking place1578
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [noun] > resting- or sticking-point
resting point1574
sticking place1578
sticking point1814
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] > for storage
hoarda1200
sticking place1578
cache1860
hide1884
stash1914
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > condition of being fast bound or firmly fixed > [noun] > place in which a thing holds fast
sticking place1578
sticking point1814
1578 T. Proctor Gorgious Gallery sig. Piiij Which flower, out of my hand shall neuer passe, But in my harte, shall haue a sticking place.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 60 But screw your courage to the sticking place, And wee'le not fayle. View more context for this quotation
1796 Another Coruscation of Meteor Burke 27 To raise our fears to a certain height, and then ‘to screw our courage to the sticking place’, he proceeds as follows.
1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More (1831) II. 136 His rent having been already screwed to the sticking-place.
1845 United Service Mag. July 337 This knot of hair..is invariably made the handy sticking-place for their needles and pins.
1883 Fortn. Rev. Oct. 473 But she [sc. Lady Macbeth]..saw that she must keep him to the sticking-place.
1906 PMLA 21 p. lxiv I should strive to bring their courage to the sticking place, by making clear that..an acceptable dissertation ought to be pushed to completion within a single year.
1974 Sunday Pharos-Tribune & Press (Logansport, Indiana) 22 Sept. 5/2 Alas, the House of Hanover and the House of Bourbon reached a sticking place at about the same time.
2006 D. Williams Mere Humanity v. 98 There is no sticking place for such an idea in the secular mind.
2009 S. Hockensmith in M. H. Greenberg et al. Sherlock Holmes in Amer. 75 There would be no screwing of courage to the sticking place. I possessed no courage to screw.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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