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A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.

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  1. n. A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
  2. v. i. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
  3. v. i. To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.
  4. v. i. To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.
  5. n. A skirmish; an encounter.
  6. n. A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
  7. n. A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.
  8. n. a quarrel about petty points
  9. v. argue over petty things
  10. A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub. [Prov. Eng.] 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. 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.
  11. A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.[Prov. Eng.]
  12. v:100 n. a quarrel about petty points