Stickle vs Strickle - What's the difference?
stickle | strickle |
(obsolete) To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.
To argue or struggle (for).
* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters.
(obsolete) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
* Drayton
(obsolete) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening.
* Sir Philip Sidney
(obsolete) To separate combatants by intervening.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To contend, contest, or altercate, especially in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
* Hudibras
* Dryden
* Hazlitt
(UK, dialect) A shallow rapid in a river.
(UK, dialect) The current below a waterfall.
* W. Browne
A rod used to level grain etc. when being measured, or concrete after pouring
A tool for sharpening scythes
An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core.
(carpentry, masonry) A templet; a pattern.
An instrument used in dressing flax.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between stickle and strickle
is that stickle is (uk|dialect) a shallow rapid in a river while strickle is a rod used to level grain etc when being measured, or concrete after pouring.As a verb stickle
is (obsolete) to act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.stickle
English
Verb
(en-verb)- ‘She has other people than poor little you to think about, and has gone abroad with them; so you needn't be in the least afraid she'll stickle this time for her rights.’
- Which [question] violently they pursue, / Nor stickled would they be.
- They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray.
- When he [the angel] sees half of the Christians killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and the race of fiends.
- Fortune, as she's wont, turned fickle, / And for the foe began to stickle .
- for paltry punk they roar and stickle
- the obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong
Noun
(en noun)- Patient anglers, standing all the day / Near to some shallow stickle or deep bay.