Definition of "stickling" []

• Present participle of stickle. (verb)

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• "I heartily agree with Peikos's stickling about the ellipsis mark, as explained at greater length here."
• "Girls are your first trial after fixtures and they try you even worse than what I call the Wandering Christians, though why THEY should roam the earth looking for bills and then coming in and viewing the apartments and stickling about terms and never at all wanting them or dreaming of taking them being already provided, is, a mystery I should be thankful to have explained if by any miracle it could be."
• "The main stickling point for people is that they find it incomprehensible that one man could have produced all of those works."