Banstickle

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). US, dialectal

Etymology

From Middle English banstikel from Old English bān (“bone”) + sticel (“prickle, sting”). See bone (noun) and stickleback.

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