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I)(að), v.1) to drive piles into; Ólafr konungr lét s. ána uppi, he blocked the river by means of piles;2) to measure with a yard-measure (s. lérept vaðmál).f.1) stick;2) candlestick (= kertastika);3) yard, yard-measure, equal to two Icelandic ells (menn skyldi hafa stikur, þær er væri tveggja alna at lengd).* * *1.að, [A. S. stician], to drive piles (stik), Hkr. i. 92 (see stik); hann lét stika ána Temps, Bret.; stikaðr var út óssinn, sem vandi er á í Austrvegum ( as is the custom in the Baltic) at stika fyrir úfriði, O. H. L. 12; svá er sagt at Ólafr konungr lét stika ána uppi, ok stór vötn er nær lágu. 52; hann skyldi ok láta stika þjóðleið … svá at eigi væri þar skipum fært, Fb. ii. 72; stika hvert grunn, Edda (Ht.): stakes driven in between high and low water-mark for whale or salmon catching, s. fyrir hval, N. G. L. i. 61; s. laxa-fiski, D. N. v. 531.II. to measure with a yard-measure; stika lérept, Fms. vi. 348; s. vaðmál, Ölk. 36; s. niðr hundrað vöru, Bs. i. 849; þar fyrir skaltú s. þér ór fatabúri þrjátigir álnir lérepts, 876.2.u, f. a stick; hvárki steinn né stika, Stj. 531; eldiviðar-stikum, sticks for fuel, 264.2. a yard, yard measure (equal to two ells); með stikum þeim er jamnlangar eru tíu, sem kvarði tvítögr sá er merktr er á kirkju-vegg á Þingvelli, Grág. i. 497; met, mæli-keröld ok stikur, Gþl. 522; hafa ranga stiku, Jb. 375: greiða vaðmál eigi skemra saman en stiku, Vm. 16; stiku-breiðr, yard-broad, Grág. i. 498; stiku-blígr, a nickname, Landn.: compds, kerti-stika, a candlestick; reglu-s., a ruler. ☞ The old stika seems to have answered to the Engl. yard; gaf þá þat ráð til Páll biskup, at menn skyldi hafa stikur, þær er væri tveggja álna at lengd, Bs. i. 135 (Páls S. ch. 9).
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