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Bicker
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub. [Prov. Eng.]
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. A skirmish; an encounter. [Obs.]
2. A fight with stones between two parties of boys. [Scot.] Jamieson.
3. A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. [Obs.] Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together. Holland.
2. To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle. Petty things about which men cark and bicker. Barrow.
3. To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame. They [streamlets] bickered through the sunny shade. Thomson.