Noun: stickle
| Singular | stickle |
| Plural | stickles |
Sample Sentences
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He swam through the plying poles of the stickle, and ran over the shallow, reaching safe water before the pack came down. He was young and fast and strong. [1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:]
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[P]atient Anglers ſtanding all the day / Neere to ſome ſhallovv ſtickle or deepe bay. [1616, William Browne, “The Fifth Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. The Second Booke, London: […] Thomas Snodham for George Norton, […], →OCLC, page 143:]
Nouns inflected like stickle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English *stikel, *stykyl (in compounds), from Old English sticel (“a prickle, sting, goad”), from Proto-Germanic *stiklaz, *stikilaz (“sting, stinger, peak, cup, goblet”), related to the verb *stikaną (“to stick”). Cognate with Dutch stekel, Icelandic stikill, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌺𐌻𐍃 (stikls) (whence Russian стекло́ (stekló, “glass”), Polish szkło (“glass”), Lithuanian sti̇̀klas, Romanian sticlă). See: Middle English Nouns '
*stikel', Old English Nouns '
sticel', Dutch Nouns '
stekel', Icelandic Nouns '
stikill', Gothic Nouns '
𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌺𐌻𐍃', Polish Nouns '
szkło', Romanian Nouns '
sticlă'.
Verbs referencing "stickle"
Czech Nouns
sklo, Gothic Nouns
𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌺𐌻𐍃, Dutch Nouns
stekel.