STICKLE (2)

Stic″kle, v. t. 1. 1. To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
Which violently they pursue, Nor stickled would they be. Drayton. 2. 2. To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate.
They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray. Sir P. Sidney.