stickle

  1. Verb.  (obsolete) To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.
  2. Verb.  (context, now) To argue or struggle (term, for) .
  3. Verb.  To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters.

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