To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants. (Obs.) "Which (question) violently they pursue, Nor stickled would they be."
2.
To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate. (Obs.) "They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray."