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stickle

v. போட்டிப்பந்தயத்தை ஒழுங்குசெய், நடுமை வகி, இடையிட்டுதடு, போராடு, போர்க்கெழு, விதிமுறை அழுத்தங்காட்டு, விதிமுறைப் பிடிமுரண்டு செய், சமரசப் படுததி வை, இருதிறப்போட்டியையும் ஒழித்து வை, விதி முறை அழுத்தஞ் செய்.


Stic"kle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stickled; p. pr. & vb. n. Stickling.] Etym: [Probably fr. OE. stightlen, sti, to dispose, arrange, govern, freq. of stihten, AS. stihtan: cf. G. stiften to found, to establish.] 1. To separate combatants by intervening. [Obs.] 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. Dryden. 2. To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds. Fortune, as she 's wont, turned fickle, And for the foe began to stickle. Hudibras. While for paltry punk they roar and stickle. Dryden. The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong. Hazlitt. 3. To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim. Stic"kle, 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. Drayton. 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. Sir P. Sidney. Stic"kle, n. Etym: [Cf. stick, v. t. & i.] Defn: A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Patient anglers, standing all the day Near to some shallow stickle or deep bay. W. Browne.


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