sticking
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sticking
- present participle and gerund of stick
Noun
[edit]sticking (plural stickings)
- A sequence or arrangement of drum notes to be played with drumsticks.
- 1997, Gary Cook, Teaching percussion, page 72:
- Too often the beginning student finds it more difficult to observe the stickings when reading single beats or duple beat divisions (e.g., quarter notes and eighth notes in 4/4 time) than if he or she alternated freely from hand to hand.
- (historical, in the plural) Coarse, bruised, or damaged meat sold to the makers of sausages, pies, etc.
- 1823, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers: 1780-1849, volume 5, page 48:
- six ounces of clods and stickings boiled
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- (coarse meat): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary