v. Sc. intr. To rustle, make a rustling sound. Hence Stichling vbl. sb.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, xlii. 78. Sik straikis and stychling wes on steir.
1501. Douglas, Pal. Hon., I. xx. The stichling of a mouse out of presence.
1788. Picken, Poems, 166. Ithers dose, While, stichlan, whis’les through their nose The eldritch snore.
