Stickle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈstɪk(ə)l/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Stickle is a noun meaning A sharp point; prickle; a spine.
Meaning
A sharp point; prickle; a spine.
More Meanings
- Steep; high; inaccessible.
- (UK, dialect) High, as the water of a river; swollen; sweeping; rapid.
- A shallow rapid in a river.
- The current below a waterfall.
- (now rare) To argue or struggle for.
- To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters.
- (obsolete) To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.
Example Sentences
Which [question] violently they pursue, / Nor stickled would they be.
Fortune, as she’s wont, turned fickle, / And for the foe began to stickle.
They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray.
[P]atient Anglers ſtanding all the day / Neere to ſome ſhallovv ſtickle or deepe bay.
Word Forms
- stickles
- stickling
- stickled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include prickle, pricker, spickle, prickly, pricklet, spicule.
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