Definition of stickle

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Stickle (v. t.) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate..

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Sharpling :: Sharpling (n.) A stickleback.
Hemibranchi :: Hemibranchi (n. pl.) An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia..
Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To separate combatants by intervening.
Stickleback :: Stickle (v. t. & i.) A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall..
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..
Stickler :: Stickler (v. t.) One who stickles.
Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.
Rule-monger :: Rule-monger (n.) A stickler for rules; a slave of rule.
Pricklefish :: Pricklefish (n.) The stickleback.
Banstickle :: Banstickle (n.) A small fish, the three-spined stickleback..
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..
Stickling :: Stickled (imp. & p. p.) of Stickl.
Stickle :: Stickle (v. t.) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants..
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..
Tittlebat :: Tittlebat (n.) The three-spined stickleback.
Sea Adder :: Sea adder () The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore.
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.
Burnstickle :: Burnstickle (n.) A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
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