Word Meaning

Meaning of stickle

- 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.