Chain
Chain verb - To confine or restrain with or as if with chains.
Stick
Stick verb - To hold to something firmly as if by adhesion.
How words are described
| old | old chain | old stick |
| full | full chain | full stick |
| long | long chain | long stick |
| similar | similar chain | similar stick |
| Other adjectives: short, certain, original, single, heavy, small, powerful, actual, massive, large, big, huge, little, main, white, new, broken, literal, giant, magical. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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It's basically a sickle on a chain attached to a stick, and starts out about about as powerful as farming implement on a stick would be.
Source: Magikarp Power - Though grabbing a suit of Power Armor and using it as a pogo stick via an infinite chain of SpinningPiledrivers is pretty darned entertaining, too.
Source: Catharsis Factor -
The gods of A Moment of Peace are invisible to the stick figure humans they walk among, but apparently Monster Food, worm like creatures hanging from the very bottom of the food chain, can see them.
Source: Invisible to Normals
Cite this Source
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