What's the difference between stickle and stuckle?
Stickle
Definition:
(v. i.) To separate combatants by intervening.
(v. i.) To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
(v. i.) To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.
(v. t.) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
(v. t.) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate.
(v. t. & i.) A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.
Example Sentences:
(1) No one's skipping around European landmarks when a screaming toddler needs a Capri-Sun opened or a Stickle Brick removed from its nose.
(2) No one knows yet where Hollande stands, but the signs are he will favour flexibility over German stickling for the rules.
(3) Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) binding characteristics in pituitaries of stickle-backs under different physiological conditions were studied using D-Arg6-Pro9-salmonGnRH-NEt as labeled ligand.
(4) Stickl's method of oral treatment of acne vulgaris with antigens has been carried out on 26 test persons.
(5) High extracellular calcium (1 mM) completely reverses this inhibition and also significantly extends the time course of O2- production in both quin-2 and control cells (Stickle et al., 1984).
Stuckle
Definition:
(n.) A number of sheaves set together in the field; a stook.