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Stickle   Listen
verb
Stickle  v. t.  
1.
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."






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Words linked to "Stickle" :   debate, stickler, argue, contend, fence



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