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What does stickle mean?

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Noun
  1. A sharp point; prickle; a spine
Adjective
  1. steep; high; inaccessible
  2. (Britain, dialect) high, as the water of a river; swollen; sweeping; rapid
Noun
  1. (Britain, dialect) A shallow rapid in a river.
  2. (Britain, dialect) The current below a waterfall.
Verb
  1. (obsolete) To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.
  2. (now rare) To argue or struggle for.
  3. To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening.
  6. (intransitive, obsolete) To separate combatants by intervening.
  7. (intransitive, obsolete) To contend, contest, or altercate, especially in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
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