Bicker

1. A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub. [Prov. Eng.]

imp. & p. p. Bickered; p. pr. & vb. n. Bickering

1. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. [Obs.]

   Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together.

2. To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.

   Petty things about which men cark and bicker.

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.

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