chopstick

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An East Asian eating utensil usually used as a pair and held in one hand to grip pieces of food or occasionally to mix liquids or scoop up small pieces of food. The utensil is a stick, usually made of wood and measuring approximately 23 cm (10 inches) in length.

   “These Sticks are called by the Chinese Quay-tse, and by some of our Voyagers Chopsticks, which they manage so dexterously that they can take up a grain of rice with them.”

2. isim An Asian person.

   “Every horse you possess having no action, or which a day's journey would knock up, (to be found in lots far more numerous than the Chinamen as yet,) ought to be turned out to fatten; when plump, take the animal into the nearest station, occupied by these chopsticks.”

3. isim A long straight stick forming part of various fishing tackle arrangements.

   “I pray pardon me for that Capt' Adams' hast to goe downe causeth me to be breefer then I would, wishing you to luffe as fast as you can in the heigh of hogg faces, for these climates of Meaco yeald nothinge but shirrow & chopp-stickes.”

4. fiil To pick up (food), or eat, using chopsticks, or as with chopsticks.

   “Then, holding his plate close to his mouth, he chopsticked it in with his fork, and, with tremendous gusto, called for more.”