Definition of stickle

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Stickle (v. i.) To separate combatants by intervening.

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Stickleback :: Stickle (v. t. & i.) A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall..
Rule-monger :: Rule-monger (n.) A stickler for rules; a slave of rule.
Stickling :: Stickled (imp. & p. p.) of Stickl.
Stickler :: Stickler (v. t.) One who stickles.
Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To separate combatants by intervening.
Sharpling :: Sharpling (n.) A stickleback.
Stickler :: Stickler (v. t.) One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire.
Sea Adder :: Sea adder () The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore.
Pricklefish :: Pricklefish (n.) The stickleback.
Stickle :: Stickle (v. t.) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants..
Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds..
Stickle :: Stickle (v. t.) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate..
Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.
Burnstickle :: Burnstickle (n.) A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
Tittlebat :: Tittlebat (n.) The three-spined stickleback.
Higgle :: Higgle (v. i.) To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle.
Banstickle :: Banstickle (n.) A small fish, the three-spined stickleback..
Hemibranchi :: Hemibranchi (n. pl.) An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia..
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..
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..
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