stickle

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

2. (now rare) To argue or struggle for.Examples: "‘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.’"Britisharchaicdialectal

3. (transitive, obsolete) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.Examples: "Which [question] violently they pursue, / Nor stickled would they be."Britishdialectalobsoletetransitive

4. (transitive, obsolete) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening.Examples: "They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray."Britishdialectalobsoletetransitive

5. (intransitive, obsolete) To separate combatants by intervening.Examples: "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."Britishdialectalintransitiveobsolete

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To contend, contest, or altercate, especially in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.Examples: "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"Britishdialectalintransitiveobsolete