LekhoriLekhoriTo quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
They bickered about dinner every evening.
To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.
Mean time unnumber'd glittering Streamlets play'd, / And hurled every-where their Waters ſheen; / That, as they bicker'd through the ſunny Glade, / Though reſtleſs ſtill themſelves, a lulling Murmur made.
To patter.
A skirmish; an encounter.
A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
Even if he did not take part in the fighting himself, he was no doubt familiar with those who had been taught, ass Darsie Latimer was by Alan Fairford, to "smoke a cobbler, spin a lozen, head a bicker, and hold the bannets" - in other words, to break a window, head a skirmish with stones, and hold the bonnet[…]
From Middle English bikeren (“to attack”), from Middle Dutch bicken (“to stab, thrust, attack”) + -er (frequentative suffix), from Old Dutch *bikken, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjan, from Proto-Germ...
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A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.
…the liquors were handed around in great fulness, the ale in large wooden bickers, and the brandy in capacious horns of oxen.