\Stic"kler\ (st[i^]k"kl[~e]r), n. [See {Stickle}, v.
t.]
One who stickles. Specifically:
(a) One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a
    second; an umpire. [Obs.]
          Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and
          trumpets whom the others should obey. --Sir P.
                                               Sidney.
          Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, First
          sought to inflame the parties, then to poise.
                                               --Dryden.
(b) One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things,
    as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate
    contender; as, a stickler for ceremony.
          The Tory or High-church were the greatest sticklers
          against the exorbitant proceedings of King James
          II.                                  --Swift.