STICKLE

stickle

(verb) dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

stickle (plural stickles)

A sharp point; prickle; a spine

Etymology 2

Adjective

stickle (comparative more stickle, superlative most stickle)

steep; high; inaccessible

(UK, dialect) high, as the water of a river; swollen; sweeping; rapid

Noun

stickle (plural stickles)

(UK, dialect) A shallow rapid in a river.

(UK, dialect) The current below a waterfall.

Etymology 3

Verb

stickle (third-person singular simple present stickles, present participle stickling, simple past and past participle stickled)

(obsolete) To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.

(now rare) To argue or struggle for.

To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters.

(transitive, obsolete) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.

(transitive, obsolete) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening.

(intransitive, obsolete) To separate combatants by intervening.

(intransitive, obsolete) To contend, contest, or altercate, especially in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.

Anagrams

• Stickel, Tickles, icklest, lickest, tickles

Proper noun

Stickle (plural Stickles)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Stickle is the 18431^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1502 individuals. Stickle is most common among White (95.21%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Stickel, Tickles, icklest, lickest, tickles

Source: Wiktionary

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Stic"kle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stickled; p. pr. & vb. n. Stickling.] Etym: [Probably fr. OE. stightlen, sti, to dispose, arrange, govern, freq. of stihten, AS. stihtan: cf. G. stiften to found, to establish.]

1. To separate combatants by intervening. [Obs.] When he [the angel] sees half of the Christians killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and the race of fiends. Dryden.

2. To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds. Fortune, as she 's wont, turned fickle, And for the foe began to stickle. Hudibras. While for paltry punk they roar and stickle. Dryden. The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong. Hazlitt.

3. To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.

Stic"kle, v. t.

1. To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants. [Obs.] Which [question] violently they pursue, Nor stickled would they be. Drayton.

2. To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate. [Obs.] They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray. Sir P. Sidney.

Stic"kle, n. Etym: [Cf. stick, v. t. & i.]

Definition: A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Patient anglers, standing all the day Near to some shallow stickle or deep bay. W. Browne.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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