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