Crossword clues for stickle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stickle \Stic"kle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stickled; p. pr. & vb. n. Stickling.] [Probably fr. OE. stightlen, sti?tlen, to dispose, arrange, govern, freq. of stihten, AS. stihtan: cf. G. stiften to found, to establish.]
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To separate combatants by intervening. [Obs.]
When he [the angel] sees half of the Christians killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and the race of fiends.
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To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
Fortune, as she 's wont, turned fickle, And for the foe began to stickle.
--Hudibras.While for paltry punk they roar and stickle.
--Dryden.The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong.
--Hazlitt. To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.
Stickle \Stic"kle\, v. t.
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To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants. [Obs.]
Which [question] violently they pursue, Nor stickled would they be.
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To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate. [Obs.]
They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray.
--Sir P. Sidney.
Stickle \Stic"kle\, n. [Cf. stick, v. t. & i.] A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Patient anglers, standing all the day
Near to some shallow stickle or deep bay.
--W. Browne.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context UK dialect English) A shallow rapid in a river. 2 (context UK dialect English) The current below a waterfall. vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate. 2 (context now rare English) To argue or struggle (term: for). 3 To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters. 4 (context transitive obsolete English) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants. 5 (context transitive obsolete English) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening. 6 (context intransitive obsolete English) To separate combatants by intervening. 7 (context intransitive obsolete English) To contend, contest, or altercate, especially in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
WordNet
v. dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points)
Wikipedia
Stickle may refer to:
- Stickle Tarn, Langdale, a small tarn in the Lake District, England
- Stickle Ridge, on James Ross Island near Antarctica
- Beverly Ann Stickle, a character on the American television show The Facts of Life
- George Stickle, a character in the film The Incredible Mr. Limpet
- Bruno Von Stickle, a character in the movie Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
Usage examples of "stickle".
Philosopher studied the New Glitterer for several years before he published his preliminary findings in a stickle so small it was hardly noticed by other Philosophers.
To think that Dean Ouoop would read his modest stickle about the New Glitterer, and then invite him to come to the University at Rhaach as a Visiting Philosopher!
He had spent many years studying those stickles, as well as the few more he had access to in the university library when he was a student, and he knew how thinking about the glitterers had changed over the ages.
If we began stickling for proof in this way, our opponents would not be long in letting us know that absolute proof is unattainable on any subject, that reasonable presumption is our highest certainty, and that crying out for too much evidence is as bad as accepting too little.
And then, full of yourself, not thinking of Elizabeth, but to withdraw in the chivalrous attitude of the man true to his word to the old woman, only stickling to bring a certain independence to the common stock, because-- I quote you!
It was certainly ridiculous for man who had once so selfishly consulted his own interests to be stickling now about the rights of others.
They caught the dragon full on in the back, stickling shoulders and neck.
If they stickle for proof and cavil on the ninth part of a hair, as they do when we bring forward what we deem excellent instances of the transmission of an acquired characteristic, why may not we, too, demand at any rate some evidence that the unmodified beetles actually did always, or nearly always, get blown out to sea, during the reduction above referred to, and that it is to this fact, and not to the masterly inactivity of their fathers and mothers, that the Madeira beetles owe their winglessness?
Divines of all sorts, and physicians, Philosophers, mathematicians: The Galenist and Paracelsian 475 Condemn the way each other deals in: Anatomists dissect and mangle, To cut themselves out work to wrangle Astrologers dispute their dreams, That in their sleeps they talk of schemes: 480 And heralds stickle, who got who So many hundred years ago.