barnystickle n also barnstickle, barnytickle*, branchy*, branstickle*. Cp OED banstickle; DBE banny-sinkle. See SPANTICKLE. Small fish found in fresh or brackish water; PRICKLY.
   1966 PADDOCK 93 Barn-stickles--very small freshwater fish. 1967 Bk of Nfld iv, 243 We learnt to swim in a little salt-water pond, called Barney Pond because it had barneystickles in it. P 41-68 In late spring the children took to the brooks with a tin can to trap branchies, about one inch long. 1986 SAUNDERS 21 Beyond that [was] the beach where we could capture barneystickles with our hands in the rock pools.

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