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stickle

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1. stickle - Noun

2. stickle - Adjective

3. stickle - Verb

5. Stickle - Proper noun

Meaning

To separate combatants by intervening.

To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.

To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.

To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.

To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate.

A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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