Definition of "forestick" [fore•stick]

• The front stick of a fire in a hearth. (noun)

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• "These are occasionally brought into higher relief by the white flashes, as the boys throw handfuls of hickory shavings onto the forestick, or punch the back log with the long iron peel, while wishing they had as"
• "Before the forestick had burned in two, she heard him coming, but he was not alone."
• "In the morning a buckeye backlog, a hickory forestick, resting on stones, with a johnny cake on a clean ash board, set before the fire to bake; a frying pan with its long handle resting on a splint-bottom chair, and a teakettle swung from a log pole, with myself setting the table, or turning the meat."