dial. Also stannicle. [Alteration of BANSTICKLE, due to alliterative association with STONE sb.] = STICKLEBACK.
c. 1620. New Metamorphosis (MS.) (Nares). To stansticles he did them all transforme, A fishe noe bigger then a prety worme.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia.
1893. in Cozens-Hardy, Broad Norf., 35. The stickleback is a stannicle.
