Stickage

rare. [f. STICK v.¹ + -AGE.] Tendency to stick; adhesion or cohesion.

1764.  J. Ferguson, Lect., iii. 39. The resistance arising from the cohesion or stickage of the wood.

1794.  G. Adams, Nat. & Exp. Philos., III. xxxi. 259. Percussion puts all the parts of the wood into a tremulous motion; which by disuniting them, lessens the stickage.