Word Meaning

stickle definition and meaning

v. i. To separate combatants by intervening.
v. i. To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
v. i. To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.
v. t. To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
v. t. To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate.
v. t. & i. A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.