vi to separate combatants by intervening.
2. stickle ·vt to separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
3. stickle ·vt to intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate.
4. stickle ·vt & ·vi a shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.
5. stickle ·vi to contend, contest, or altercate, ·esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
6. stickle ·vi to play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.