"gob stick" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2013, R. K. Cowles, “1930s Poems: Licking the Chops”, in Slang Poetry Volume 1, page 57",
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        "A spoon."
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        "(archaic, UK, dialect or slang) A spoon."
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