[STICKING vbl. sb.] The lower part of the neck-piece of a carcass of beef.
1469. Ord. R. Househ. (1790), 96. The Bocherye. Item, No fee of the oxe, more than barely the hedde, the steckinge-piece, the gollette.
1802–12. Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), IV. 438. Neck-beef and sticking-pieces are provided by the butcher for those who cannot come up to the price of ribs and sirloins.
1844. Stephens, Bk. Farm, II. 169. The sticking-piece is a great favourite with some epicures, on account of the pieces of rich fat in it.
1886. W. Somerset Word-bk., Sticking-piece, the part of the neck of a bullock near where the knife entered—usually discoloured with blood and sold for gravy-beef.
