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one of a pair of slender sticks used as oriental tableware to eat food with
Word origin
Apparently a compound of chop + stick, but the sense of the first element is not clear. The eating utensil sense (attested since 1637) is presumably a transfer of sense from the earlier fishing tackle sense (attested from 1615), based on physical resemblance.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“When not used, the chopsticks must be laid on the table, side by side, exactly pointing away from the individual[.]”
“We ate chow-chow with chop-sticks in the celestial restaurants; […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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