rickle
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rickle
Rhymes with -ɪkəl
Where it comes from
From Scots rickle, from Old English hrēac (“stack”) with the Scots suffix -le (“full (of)”).
noun rickles
- A loose, disordered collection of things; a heap; a jumble. It was no more than a butt and a ben, with a rickle of sheds behind it where old Pooty kept his donkey that was nearly as old […]
- A small rick of grain.
- A dilapidated or ramshackle building. We came home by a place called Speke Hall — built 1589 — the queerest-looking old rickle of boards that I ever set eyes on; […]
- Any object in poor condition, particularly a vehicle. On a memorable night was the old rickle of a boat taken out to the West Sands during a terrible storm, when Admiral Maitland Dougall distinguished himself by his valiant services.
- An emaciated person or animal. But it's a bad disaise that can't be cured somehow, Manis said to himself — so be began to consider how to sell his rickle of a pony to advantage.
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