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stickled |
1 definition found 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.
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