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Quotation dates: 1710
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†STICKLE, n.2 The trigger of a musket.Sc. 1710 J. Maclaurin Crim. Cases (1774) 27:
The off-going of the shot might have been occasioned by the stickle its being ruffled or touched by the pannel's shoulder.
