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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