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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Banstickle :: Banstickle (n.) A small fish, the three-spined stickleback..
Stickle :: Stickle (v. t.) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate..
Tittlebat :: Tittlebat (n.) The three-spined stickleback.
Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To separate combatants by intervening.
Sharpling :: Sharpling (n.) A stickleback.
Stickleback :: Stickle (v. t. & i.) A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall..
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..
Pricklefish :: Pricklefish (n.) The stickleback.
Stickler :: Stickler (v. t.) One who stickles.
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..
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.
Burnstickle :: Burnstickle (n.) A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
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. i.) To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.
Higgle :: Higgle (v. i.) To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle.
Stickling :: Stickled (imp. & p. p.) of Stickl.
Sea Adder :: Sea adder () The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore.
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