01 n. A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
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A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.[Prov. Eng.]
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7 senses · 3 variants
Webster, 1913
Bicker
02 v. i. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
imp. & p. p.
Bickered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Bickering
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To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.[Obs.]“Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together.” — Holland.
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To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.“Petty things about which men cark and bicker.” — Barrow.
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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.
03 n. A skirmish; an encounter.
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A skirmish; an encounter.[Obs.]
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A fight with stones between two parties of boys.[Scot.]
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A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.