Sticks vs Stocks - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between sticks and stocks

is that sticks is while stocks is (plurale tantum) a device, similar to a pillory, formerly used for public humiliation and punishment.

(stock).

(head)

rural terrain, especially a woody area; any rural region.

We had to drive way out into the sticks to visit that customer.

(slang, plural only, chiefly by long-time users) crutches

(rural) * See: * boonies * boondocks * hinterland * middle of nowhere * the sticks ----

(head)

(plurale tantum) A device, similar to a pillory, formerly used for public humiliation and punishment.

(nautical, plurale tantum) The frame upon which a ship is built, and from which it is launched.

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(stock)

* (wikipedia "stocks") ----