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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Examples of "stickle" in Sentences
- When is the time you stickled
- He often stickles with my work.
- The girl stickled to the teacher.
- The plaintiff stickled the matter.
- Proof is needed to stickle such thing.
- It takes a real bias to stickle with such a trifle.
- When she stickled, it attracted people's attention.
- Much more open is Stickle Ghyll, which descends from Stickle Tarn.
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