stickful

[ stik-foo l ]

/ ˈstɪkˌfʊl /

as much set type as a composing stick will hold, usually about two column inches.

Origin of stickful

First recorded in 1675–85; stick¹ + -ful

See -ful.

With the opening installment of the first serial the Free Press published a photograph of the author over a stickful of biography.

The Fiction Factory |John Milton Edwards
The reporter presents himself at the city desk, tells what he has got, and is told by the city editor, “Write a stickful.”

When Winter Comes to Main Street |Grant Martin Overton
Stickful after stickful was arranged, until a page of type lay there.

Harper's Young People, January 4, 1881 |Various
All that was worthy of preservation remained in what the printer calls a "stickful."

Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) |Various

Nort walked over to the stone, took up a stickful of type, and began to distribute it in the cases.

Hempfield |David Grayson