banstickle

English

Etymology

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

Noun

banstickle (plural banstickles)

  1. A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for banstickle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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