stickle

/ˈstɪk(ə)l/

verb

(obsolete) To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate. / (now rare) To argue or struggle for. / To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters.

He was asked to stickle the dispute between the two parties.

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意味（1）

(obsolete) To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.

意味（2）

(now rare) To argue or struggle for.

‘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.’

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意味（3）

To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters.

Miserable new Berline! Why could not Royalty go in some old Berline similar to that of other men? Flying for life, one does not stickle about his vehicle.

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意味（4）

(transitive, obsolete) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.

Which [question] violently they pursue, / Nor stickled would they be.

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意味（5）

(transitive, obsolete) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening.

They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray.

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意味（6）

(intransitive, obsolete) To separate combatants by intervening.

When he [the angel] sees half of the Christians are already killed, and all the rest in a fair way to be routed, [he]stickles betwixt the remainders of God’s host, and the race of fiends.

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