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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An icicle.
  2. n. plural The crest of a cock.
  3. n. A woodpecker.
  4. To aim; intend; design. Halliwell.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive, Northern England To aim; intend; design.
  2. n. dialectal An icicle.
  3. n. dialectal, usually plural The crest of a cock.
  4. n. dialectal A woodpecker.

Etymologies

  1. From a variation of ickle ("icicle"), from Middle English ikil, ykle, from Old English ġicel ("ice, icicle"), from Proto-Germanic *jikilaz, *jekulaz (“piece of ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *eiǵ- (“icefloe, icicle”). More at ickle. (Wiktionary)

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  • hernesheir Ice-eckle. Jan 24, 2013

  • alexz another one for my list...
    Jan 24, 2013

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