stickle

• ⇰ To separate combatants by intervening.
• ⇰ To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
• ⇰ To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.

• ⇰ To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
• ⇰ To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate.

• ⇰ A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.