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

References

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