Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stick used for mixing toddy or other drinks, and commonly tipped with a button, often roughened, for breaking loaf-sugar; a muddler.
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Examples
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And he continued unfolding to Hamil his luncheon programme while, with a silver toddy-stick, heirloom from bibulous generations of
The Firing Line 1899
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The bar was thronged with customers, the toddy-stick keeping a continual tattoo; while in the hall there was a broad, deep, buzzing sound, with an occasional peal of impatient thunder, -- all symptoms of all overflowing house and an eager audience.
Passages from a Relinquised Work (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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