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The Fire drill (tool) used for lighting fires before the invention of matches. Fire Stick, winner of the 1984 D.C. McKay Stakes horse race; A Zulu name for bishop William Taylor (1821–1902) Pyrobaculum (Latin: fire stick), a single celled organism; A fictional device in the TV series Fireman
Pick-up sticks, pick-a-stick, jackstraws, jack straws, spillikins, spellicans, or fiddlesticks is a game of physical and mental skill in which a bundle of sticks, between 8 and 20 centimeters long, is dropped as a loose bunch onto a table top into a random pile. Each player, in turn, tries to remove a stick from the pile without disturbing any ...
The 2019–2020 Australian bushfire season led to increasing calls by some experts for the greater use of fire-stick farming. Traditional practitioners had already worked with some fire agencies to conduct burns on a small scale, with the uptake of workshops held by the Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation increasing each year.