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stickle |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. --W. Browne. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stickle \Stic"kle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Stickled}; p. pr & vb n. {Stickling}.] [Probably fr OE stightlen sti?tlen, 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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 --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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: stickle v : dispute or argue stubbornly, esp. minor points
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