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Andrew knew the hills like his own ingle, and she could tell to within five minutes how long it would take him to go to the fauld and back.

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  1. noun An open fire in a fireplace.
  2. noun A fireplace.

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  • He leaves the atmosphere of drawing-rooms for the ingle or the ale-house or the mountain breeze The affectations of his style are insignificant and rare. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • 'I suppose she's the same flesh and bluid as me Shut up, you twa,' said a querulous, peevish voice from the ingle-neuk, where the mother, dull-eyed, depressed, and untidy, sat with her elbows on her knees. —  The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow
  • The mother has left her daughter in a swoon to seek help of the priest who has knelt unweariedly by the dead body of her daughter's lover, now lying on the ingle-bench in the hall. —  Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Coming out of the wet, dark night, it was pleasant to see the blazing ingle, the white-sanded floor, and the little round table holding some cold moor-cock and the pastry that he particularly liked Love is but cauldrife cheer, my lad," said Janet, "an' the breast o' a bird an' a raspberry tartlet will be nane out o' the way." —  Winter Evening Tales
  • My brother and I were down in Wales And listened by night to the Welshman's tales He was eleven and I was ten We sat on the knees of the farmer's men After the whole day's work was done And I was friends with the farmer's son His hands were rough as his arms were strong His mouth was merry and loud for song Each night when set by the ingle-wall He was the merriest man of them all I would catch at his beard and say All the things I had done in the day Tumbled bowlders over the force Swum in the river and fired the gorse Half the side of the hill!" —  An Englishwoman's Love-Letters
 

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  1. Perhaps Scottish Gaelic aingeal, fire, light.

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  1. from Gaelic aingeal, fire, light, sunshine, = Cornish engil, fire; prob. from Latin ignis = Sanskrit agni, fire: see igneous.
  2. Also engle (irreg. enghle); in form exactly as if from Middle English engle, engel, from Anglo-Saxon engel, angel (see angel); but the connection lacks confirmation. Also, with epithesis of n (from the art. an, or possessive mine), ningle. The history is obscure, the word being usually taken in a sinister sense.
  3. Also engle; from ingle, n.
 

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