What is "stickleback"

Usage examples of "stickleback".

It was a variation on a stickleback clitoral stimulator but instead of the usual fairly small rubber projections, sticking out from the ring, pointing upwards along his shaft were closely packed much harder tines about a quarter of an inch long.

Trout, grayling, now and then a pike, as well as the smaller fry of minnows and sticklebacks, are of course found in the streams.

A few roads, a pond behind a wall where sticklebacks were trapped in jars and dragonflies skimmed the oily water, a railway line with a narrow pedestrian tunnel beneath it, a station of nicotine-coloured wood and rows of green tin lamps along the platform.

On the piles supporting the pier and the people on the pier beards of seaweed wave fitfully: back and forth sticklebacks busy silvery commonplace.

The great forests of weed were delicately traced, and in them there hung motionless many schools of sticklebacks learning to do their physical exercises in strict unison.

If there was none, I said, I could show her something in the marsh pools that she had never before seen sticklebacks building round nests under water and slashing at each other out of cussedness with the rows of bayonets on their backs.

It was near the brook, and I knew it must have been recently filled by the tides, so that sticklebacks would come up into it from the ocean.

I told her to sit quietly on the bank and stare into the pool, and soon she would see sticklebacks fighting.

They were giants among sticklebacks, three inches long and shaped like mackerel, and the belly of each was blood red because of the mating season.

I could feel the sticklebacks dashing themselves against my hands in a frenzy of rage, and soon I came across one of the loose nests.

The sticklebacks taught their art to the bass, who became much more expert.

Instead, he starts tying flies, using a little kit of hooks, a vice that screws onto the coffee table, peacock feathers, tinsel, squirrel tail, and multicoloured threads, turning his home into an archive of sticklebacks, muddler minnows, torn thumbs, woolly buggers, waterboatmen.

I think at that moment I would have given a year of my life for the worst hook and line I had used as a boy among the sticklebacks of Polton Penna.

The great forests of weed were delicately traced, and in them there hung motionless many schools of sticklebacks learning to do their physical exercises in strict unison.

But while the Fromates down below were running around sabotaging industries and arcologies and nuclear plants and anything else they didn't like, Jill went to space Her heart bled no less than any for the baby fur seals and the three-spined stickleback and all the fish killed by mine tailings, but she'd thought of something to do about it all.