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Meaning of GOBSTICK

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Gob"stick`\, n. [Gob mouth + stick.]
1. (Angling) A stick or device for removing the hook from a
   fish's gullet.

         He . . . wrenched out the hook with the short wooden
         stick he called a ``gobstick.''       --Kipling.

2. A spoon. [Prov. Eng. or Slang]

 

 

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