Definition of "stickled" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of stickle. (verb)

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• "The rebel officer—though they were not to be called rebels: this was a rising, not a rebellion and the officer stickled for the distinction—pointed out the areas of interest."
• "Ammon stickled for the _eternal_ principle of righteousness, and contended that it had been violated in the first instance."
• "Sawkins 'men taunted him with "backwardness" in that engagement, and "stickled not to defame, or brand him with the note of cowardice.""