U.S. [f. FORE- pref.] The front stick lying on the andirons in a wood fire.

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1801.  Spirit of the Farmers’ Museum, 171.

        I, snugly wrapt in flannel thick,
Tobacco puff o’er my forestick.

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1866.  Whittier, Snow-Bound, 123.

        The oaken log, green, huge, and thick,
And on its top the stout back-stick;
The knotty forestick laid apart,
And filled between with curious art
The ragged brush.

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1872.  O. W. Holmes, Poet Breakf.-t., i. (1885), 26. They shall have their own again, and bring with them the fore-stick and back-log of ancient days.

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1878.  Mrs. Stowe, Poganuc P., ix. 71. Backlog and forestick were soon piled and kindlings laid, and the fire roared and snapped and crackled up the ample chimney.

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