Talk:stickle

Nice citation here, but not sure which of the two water/current senses it is:

• 1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor

  The water runs down with a strong, sharp stickle, and then has a sudden elbow in it, where the small brook trickles in; and on that side the bank is steep, four or it may be five feet high, overhanging loamily; […]

Equinox ◑ 02:54, 19 July 2021 (UTC)