Bicker
Bicker , noun
[See Beaker.]
A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub. [Provincial English]
Bicker ({not transcribed}) , intransitive verb
[Old English bikeren, perh. from Celtic; compare Welsh bicra to fight, bicker, bicre conflict, skirmish; perh. akin to English beak.]
1.
To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. [Obsolete]
Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together.
2.
To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.
Petty things about which men cark and bicker.
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.
Bicker , noun
1.
A skirmish; an encounter. [Obsolete]
2.
A fight with stones between two parties of boys. [Scottish] — Jamieson
3.
A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.