\Bick"er\, n. [See {Beaker}.]
A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
[Prov. Eng.]

\Bick"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bickered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Bickering}.] [OE. bikeren, perh. fr. Celtic; cf. W. bicra
to fight, bicker, bicre conflict, skirmish; perh. akin to E.
beak.]
1. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. [Obs.]
         Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together.
                                               --Holland.
2. To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.
         Petty things about which men cark and bicker.
                                               --Barrow.
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.
                                               --Thomson.

\Bick"er\, n.
1. A skirmish; an encounter. [Obs.]
2. A fight with stones between two parties of boys. [Scot.]
   --Jamieson.
3. A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.