Bick"er, n. [See Beaker.]
A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
[Prov. Eng.]
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Bick"er (?), v. 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.def> [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.
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Bick"er, n.
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.
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