Stic*ca"do (?), n. [Cf. It.
steccato a palisade.] (Mus.) An instrument
consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at
the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are
unequal in size, gradually increasing from the smallest to the
largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones are produced
by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible
sticks.