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stickleback|ˈstɪk(ə)lbæk|
Forms: 5 stykylbak, 6 sticklebanke, -banck, 6–7 stickle bag(ge, 7 stit(t)le bag(ge, 8 stittle-back, 7–9 stickle-back, 7– stickleback.
[f. OE. sticel prick, sting + back n.1 Cf. the synonymous banstickle, stanstickle, stickling, tittlebat, prickleback, -bag (N. Irel. spricklebag).]
A small spiny-finned fish, of the genus Gasterosteus or family Gasterosteidæ. The common three-spined stickleback, G. aculeatus, is found in both fresh and salt water.
sea stickleback: see sea n. 23 d.
14..Burlesque in Relig. Antiq. I. 85 The borbottus and the stykylbakys. 1552Huloet, Sticklyng or stickle bagge fishe. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuff B 1, The silliest millers thombe or contemptible stickle-banck. 1611Cotgr., Artiere, the Sharpling, Stickling, or Sticklebacke. a1616Beaum. & Fl. Wit at Sev. Weapons v. i, I have been seven mile in length, along the new River; I have seene a hundred stickle bags. 1647–60Hexham, Tobaes,..a kind of Prick⁓fish, or Stitle bagge. 1653Walton Angler iv. 97 A small Loch, or a Sticklebag. 1656H. More Enthus. Tri. Observ. 139 No fish, not so much as a small Stittle-bag. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Stittle-back. 1769Pennant Brit. Zool. III. 217. 1799 A. Young Agric. Linc. 259 Manuring... Sticklebacks in the East and West fens [are] so numerous, that a man has made 4s. a day by selling them at a half⁓penny a bushel. 1896Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. V. 403 The sticklebacks have the honour not only of representing a genus (Gastrosteus), but likewise a family by themselves. |