Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The stickleback, a fish of which there are several species. Also jack-sharpling. See stickle-back and Gasterosteus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. A stickleback.

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  • noun UK, dialect A stickleback.

Etymologies

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From sharp +‎ -ling. Compare German Schärfling ("stickleback").

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