stickery

Updated: June 1, 2025

That done, he would tie up the pump-handle, milk the cows dry, strew the path to the gate with burrs and thistles, and stick up a sign, "Thorney is the path and stickery the way that leedith unto the kingdom of heaven. Amen!"

Helen Cody Wetmore - Last of the Great Scouts : the life story of Col. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" as told by his sister

So he went out in the orchard, and he shot his sharp stickery quills, like little arrows at the cherries on the tree, and they fell down, so he could pick them up in a basket. I mean the cherries fell down, though of course the quills did also though the hedgehog didn't pick them up. And while he was doing that Uncle Wiggily was making the pie crust.

Howard Roger Garis - Uncle Wiggily's Adventures