\Stic*ca"do\, n. [Cf. It. steccato a palisade.] (Mus.)
An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the
bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a
kind of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually
increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to
the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the
pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible sticks.