Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who goes from ridge to ridge on the harvest-field, and cuts and gathers the handfuls left by the reapers.
- noun One who has no settled charge, but goes from place to place: often applied humorously to a clerical probationer.
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Examples
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A gentleman, in my case, would have settled the matter with the kirk-treasurer for a small sum of money; but the poor stibbler, the penniless dominie, having married his cousin of Kittlebasket, must next have proclaimed her frailty to the whole parish, by mounting the throne of Presbyterian penance, and proving, as
Redgauntlet 2008
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Listen, ye stickit stibbler, to what I tell ye, or ye sall rue it while theres a limb o ye hings to anither!
Chapter XLVI 1917
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--- I'se be caution the warst stibbler that ever stickit a sermon out ower the Tweed yonder, wad lay a ghaist twice as fast as him, wi 'his holy water and his idolatrous trinkets.
Rob Roy 1887
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A gentleman, in my case, would have settled the matter with the kirk-treasurer for a small sum of money; but the poor stibbler, the penniless dominie, having married his cousin of
Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801
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-- I'se be caution the warst stibbler that ever stickit a sermon out ower the Tweed yonder, wad lay a ghaist twice as fast as him, wi 'his holy water and his idolatrous trinkets.
Rob Roy — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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Listen, ye stickit stibbler, to what I tell ye, or ye sail rue it while there's a limb o 'ye hings to anither!
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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Listen, ye stickit stibbler, to what I tell ye, or ye sail rue it while there's a limb o 'ye hings to anither!
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Here's a bra 'din, indeed, about an auld wife gaun to the grave, a young limmer to the close-heads and causeway, and a sticket stibbler [A student of divinity who has not been able to complete his studies on theology.] to the sea instead of the gallows!'
Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801
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Listen, ye stickit stibbler, to what I tell ye, or ye sail rue it while there's a limb o 'ye hings to anither!
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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-- I'se be caution the warst stibbler that ever stickit a sermon out ower the Tweed yonder, wad lay a ghaist twice as fast as him, wi 'his holy water and his idolatrous trinkets.
Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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