Definition of stickle

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Stickling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stickl.

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Stickle :: Stickle (v. t.) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants..
Burnstickle :: Burnstickle (n.) A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
Higgle :: Higgle (v. i.) To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle.
Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.
Sharpling :: Sharpling (n.) A stickleback.
Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds..
Pricklefish :: Pricklefish (n.) The stickleback.
Banstickle :: Banstickle (n.) A small fish, the three-spined stickleback..
Stickleback :: Stickle (v. t. & i.) A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall..
Sea Adder :: Sea adder () The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore.
Hemibranchi :: Hemibranchi (n. pl.) An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia..
Stick-seed :: Stickler (v. t.) One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony..
Stickler :: Stickler (v. t.) One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire.
Rule-monger :: Rule-monger (n.) A stickler for rules; a slave of rule.
Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To separate combatants by intervening.
Stickling :: Stickled (imp. & p. p.) of Stickl.
Stickler :: Stickler (v. t.) One who stickles.
Disciplinarian :: Disciplinarian (n.) One who disciplines; one who excels in training, especially with training, especially with regard to order and obedience; one who enforces rigid discipline; a stickler for the observance of rules and methods of training; as, he is a better disciplinarian than scholar..
Stickle :: Stickle (v. t.) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate..
Stickler :: Stickleback (v. t.) Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback..
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