Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bickered"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Bicker \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. [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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