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Definition of Stickle
1. Verb. Dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points).
Definition of Stickle
1. v. i. To separate combatants by intervening.
2. v. t. To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
3. n. A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.
Definition of Stickle
1. Verb. (obsolete) To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate. ¹
2. Verb. (rare) To argue or struggle (term for). ¹
3. Verb. To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters. ¹
4. Noun. (UK dialect) A shallow rapid in a river. ¹
5. Noun. (UK dialect) The current below a waterfall. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stickle
1. to argue stubbornly [v -LED, -LING, -LES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stickle
Literary usage of Stickle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"To stickle, rn To act the part of a stickler. It is a most dangerous «nd ...
Patient anglers, standing all the da; Near to some shallow stickle, ..."
2. A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from by Richard Chenevix Trench (1865)
"stickle, ) Now to stand with a certain ... in their own persons and by their own
arms the quarrel of their principals, and thus to ' stickle ' for it. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court: And in the by Esek Cowen, New York (State). Supreme Court (1845)
"stickle ALENDORF against stickle. Thejudgment, DEBT, on the penalty of a bond
for $3000, conditioned referees upon for the payment of $1500, ..."
4. Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Bill by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce (1915)
"stickle. There is quite a variation, depending upon the character of the commodity.
... stickle. Each average haul is computed by each commodity; ..."
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