banstickle

English

Etymology

From Middle English banstikel from Old English bān (“bone”) + sticel (“prickle, sting”). See bone (noun) and stickleback.

Noun

banstickle (plural banstickles)

(now US, dialectal) three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

References

“banstickle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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