Definition of "stickest"

Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall never see my gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting!

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i]

[…] alas! my child, by not passing the night wisely in reading, when thou art among the learned, thou stickest like a calf in the mud.

1787, William Jones, "Hitopadesa of Vishnusarman" (1787, aka "Hitopadesa of Vishnu Sarman"); repr. in Works (1807), Vol. 13, p. 8