Sunday, January 07, 2007
Mahlstick
A mahlstick (also known as maulstick) is used by painters. It is a stick held in the left hand to help support the right hand and has a padded leather ball at one end. Clear as mud? My husband reckons he's seen a painter using one, but it makes painting sound even more complicated than normal to me. The word imps came up with plenty of great alternative meanings for mahlstick today. Madame C was the favoured one on the poll. The honours are yours Madame C.
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Mahl•stick noun
A solo performance to entertain crowds at the shopping center.
(origin: from markeitt-schtick -- language unknown.)
[contestant's note: this entry was actually hand-painted, although I had difficulty holding my hand steady.]
A mahlstick is a protective amulet, given to travellers to ward off evil.
"The sounds of the forest seem to close in around her, filling her with fear, and Elsa clutched her mahlstick closer."
Mahlstick is a person that complains about how terrible their life and then at the end of thier moan tell you something that proves that their life is infact rather wonderful. Rather like a life-hyperchondriac.
Gerry moaned on and on about the cost of fuel, the MOT and road tax and all the small repairs that had to be made on the car, then said that as it was a classic jaguar he could get a billion pounds for it on the current market. What a mahlstick thought Fred.
A mahlstick is somebody who is obsessed with their ill health. Whatever operation or illness you may mention, they've had it, but of course in the case of a mahlstick it was much worse than normal. In fact the doctor said they'd never seen such a bad case of it IN THE WHOLE OF THEIR MEDICAL CAREER! It's amazing they're still alive really.
A mahlstick is a long-handled tool with a point at one end used to pick up trash.
"The park warden sighed at the amount of litter left after the Saturday night concert and speared the nearest bits with her mahlstick."
The mahlstick was a tool that looked much like a ruler that the teachers used to punish mischievious students with.
It was actually named after a controling teacher who wanted to keep order in her schoolhouse.
Miss Mahlstick whittled a stick to use on students who didn't finish homework or distrupted the class after an exhausting day with two of her most troublesome pupils.
(Thankfully, a law has been passed prohibiting this kind of abuse in the mid-1900s
A mahlstick is a long handled broom for cleaning ceilings and odd corners up there .. it has a cunning mop that can easily detect and swipe at the cobwebs and what have you and it makes the lives of us housewives in third world countries all that much easier .
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