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1 1832 MOSS MS Diary 29 Mar Left
this day for the Bay to haul down some sticks for the store. 1984 POWELL 122 The 10 HP
[engine] wasn't much power for those big sticks; many we were squaring down into 12" by
12" and it was slow work. 1986 Evening Telegram 7 Feb, p. 3 [He] said the woman
was not physically able to swing a 30-pound mall and manipulate wharf sticks with 10-inch
butts.
4 Comb ~ fence.
1930
KENT 86 On the rock-terraced hillside facing north straggled the houses, weather-beaten
wood, stark, flimsy; stick fences; tottering wharves and fish houses strewn at the
water's edge.
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