wooden stick
Simple carved branch
A wooden stick is exactly what it sounds like: a piece of wood that is longer than it is wide, typically straight or nearly so.
The term is deliberately generic, covering everything from a twig picked up off the ground to a carved walking stick to a piece of lumber.
The dog fetched the wooden stick I threw.
When precision matters, speakers usually reach for more specific terms like branch, dowel, cane, or bat.
- branchDivision or woody limb
- twigSlender woody shoot
- old growthUndisturbed ancient forest
- staffOrganization's workers collectively
- caneStick for support
rod · baton · dowel · kindling · splinter · rough hewn · bark · whittling · whittle down · firewood · club · walking · hiking · carved · gnarled · oak · birch · snap
- hockey stickstwig, lumber, shaft, blade, butt end
- match partsmatchbox, strike plate, matchbook
- cuticle carecuticle oil, cuticle pusher, cuticle cream, cuticle scissors, cuticle trimmer
- paletasmango, strawberry, lime, tamarind, coconut
wooden stickmetal bar
Rigid alloy length
steel rod · iron bar · titanium rod · glass rod · concrete beam
wooden stickrubber hose
Flexible hollow cylinder
flexible tube · rope · cord · rubber band · wire
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