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Webster 1913 Edition
Bicker
Bick′er
,Noun.
[See
Beaker
.] A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
[Prov. Eng.]
Bick′er
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bickered
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Bickering
.] [OE.
bikeren
, perh. fr. Celtic; cf. W. bicra
to fight, bicker, bicre
conflict, skirmish; perh. akin to E. beak
.] 1.
To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
[Obs.]
Two eagles had a conflict, and
bickered
together. Holland.
2.
To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.
Petty things about which men cark and
bicker
. Barrow.
3.
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.
Bick′er
,Noun.
1.
A skirmish; an encounter.
[Obs.]
2.
A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
[Scot.]
Jamieson.
3.
A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bicker
BICK'ER
, v.i.1.
To skirmish; to fight off and on; that is, to make repeated attacks. [But in this sense I believe rarely used.]2.
To quarrel; to contend in words; to scold; to contend in petulant altercation. [This is the usual signification.]3.
To move quickly; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame or water; as the bickering flame; the bickering stream.