Definition of stickle

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Stickle (v. t.) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants..

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