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drumstick

noun
/ˈdɹʌmˌstɪk/

Etymology

From drum + stick.

  1. derived from *(s)teyg-✻ — “to pierce, prick, be sharp”
  2. inherited from *stikkô✻
  3. inherited from *stikkō✻
  4. inherited from sticca
  5. inherited from stikke
  6. compounded as drumstick — “drum + stick”

Definitions

  1. A stick used to play drums.

  2. The second joint of the legbone of a chicken or other fowl, especially as an item of food.

  3. The moringa or drumstick tree, Moringa oleifera, especially its slender, cylindrical pods.

    • She could imagine the taste of the tender drumstick seeds on her tongue.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A person's leg.

      • At a given signal, from the boss of the hack, who stands door in hand, the young lady gathers her clothes well up her drumsticks, and would you believe, two steps or springs only, like those of a kangaroo, take her into the house.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at drumstick. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at drumstick. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at drumstick

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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