Definitions from Wiktionary (Stickle)

▸ noun:  A sharp point; prickle; a spine
▸ adjective:  Steep; high; inaccessible.
▸ adjective:  (UK, dialect) High, as the water of a river; swollen; sweeping; rapid.
▸ noun:  A shallow rapid in a river.
▸ noun:  The current below a waterfall.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.
▸ verb:  (now rare) To argue or struggle for.
▸ verb:  To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To separate combatants by intervening.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To contend, contest, or altercate, especially in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
▸ noun:  A surname.




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