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

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