1) Household furniture.
2) Pops or pistols. Stow your sticks; hide your pistols. CANT.
See pops.
A familiar phrase for masts. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Thin legs, compared to sticks with which boys play at cat. See trap sticks. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Thin legs, gambs: from the sticks with which boys play at trap-ball. ...
An apostrophe often made when the masts complain in a fresh squall, or are over-pressed, and it is u...