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.
- We will stickle it, every little bit of it, we will stick it like new new new.
- Though if we're going to stickle, “Daemon” Is already out, since it went on sale on January 8.
- A pickled minnow is very good if you catch him in a stickle, with the scarlet fingers upon him; but
- This only, I think that the like before was never seen, and in this place we had very stickle and strong currents.
- Watching this film made a sizable part of our inner child die horribly, choking to death on his own stickle-bricks.
- I hate to be a stickler, but I feel it is my duty to stickle, and I really just wanted to use the word "stickle"'cuz I just made it up, but anyway:
- Systematic insincerity on the part of the ostensible purveyors of information and leaders of opinion may be deplored by persons who stickle for truth and pin their hopes of social salvation on the spread of accurate information.
- On Stewart v Cramer, I found this from The Theory of Business of Enterprise written in 1915 and as good a critique of 20th century media written, and for anyone who "stickle for truth", remains a major issue to sort for 21st century democracy.
- Mr. Helstone, both about France and England; and about revolutions, and regicides, and restorations in general; and about the divine right of kings, which you often stickle for in your sermons, and the duty of non-resistance, and the sanity of war, and -- '
- The water runs down with a strong sharp stickle, and then has a sudden elbow in it, where the small brook trickles in; and on that side the bank is steep, four or it may be five feet high, overhanging loamily; but on the other side it is flat, pebbly, and fit to land upon.