Stickle

[Stic·kle]

Dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points)

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To separate combatants by intervening.

Verb
dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points)


v. i.
To separate combatants by intervening.

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

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

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

v. t.
To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate.

v. t. & i.
A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.


Stickle

Stic"kle , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stickled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stickling.] [Probably fr. OE. stightlen, stitlen, 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.
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.
While for paltry punk they roar and stickle.
The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong.
3. To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.

Stickle

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.
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.

Stickle

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

To separate combatants by intervening.

To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.

A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.

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