banstickle

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English banstikel from Old English bān (“bone”) + sticel (“prickle, sting”). See bone (noun) and stickleback. === Noun === banstickle (plural banstickles) (now US, dialectal) three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). === References === “banstickle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.