280 StickingS. The last of a cow's milk. M.A.C. Stickler. One who is on watch in the wrestling ring to see fair play. Stiddle^ or Stoodle. The pole to which an ox is tied in the stall. See Studdle. Stile. A flat iron. M.A.C. Sting-blubber. The sea nettle. See Blubber. Stingdum. The fish Coitus scorpius, C. Stint. To impregnate. c. StiraCOOSe. A bustling, energetic woman. Stirrage. Commotion, fuss, movement. Stock. A large block or log of wood. The " Christ- mas stock" of Cornwall is the yule-block" of the North of England. Stoc in Celtic Cornish. Stodge. Food when very 'Hhick and slab," is so called in contempt. "What stodge!" Stogged. See Stagged. Stoiting. The leaping of a shoal of fish. c. Stool-crab. The male edible crab. C. Stope. A step. "When a sumph (sump) or pit is sunk down in a lode, they break and work it away as it were in stairs or steps, one man following another, and breaking the ground which is called stopeing; and that height or step which each man breaks, is called a stope. Likewise, hewing away the lode overhead, is ^stopeing in the back/ Fryce,
