Definition of stickle

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Stickle (v. i.) To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds..

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