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- Stickle - v. i. - To separate combatants by intervening.
- Stickle - v. i. - To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
- Stickle - v. i. - To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.
- Stickle - v. t. - To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
- Stickle - v. t. - To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate.
- Stickle - v. t. & i. - A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.
- 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.
- Stickled - imp. & p. p. - of Stickle
- Stickler - v. t. - One who stickles.
- Stickler - v. t. - One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire.
- 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.
- Higgle - v. i. - To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle.