Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A heap or pile, as of stones or peats, loosely thrown together; specifically, a small rick of hay or grain.
- noun A quantity of anything loosely and carelessly put together; a loose or indiscriminate mass: as, the man is a rickle of bones.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
loose ,disordered collection ofthings ; aheap ; ajumble . - noun A
dilapidated orramshackle building . - noun Any
object inpoor condition , particularly avehicle . - noun An
emaciated person oranimal .
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Examples
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Dis bee a berry tree act rickle LOL — tree low budgit purrductions at ounce!
Monorail Cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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"An auld done rickle o 'a place!" he soliloquised, lifting a candle high that it might show the shame of the denuded and crumbling walls.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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I came home now on this night of nights with Munchen and Augsburg, and the fine cities of all the France, in my mind, and I tell you I could think shame of this mean rickle of stones I had thought a town, were it not for the good hearts and kind I knew were under every roof.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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It was twae miles from Wamphray on the Lockerbie road, but they tell me the place is noo just a rickle o 'stanes.'
Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907
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She indicated with an indignant sweep of the hand what she designated "a rickle o 'rubbish" as the net proceeds of Boyd's industry.
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He crawled backward, now scuttling from one little rickle of peats left forlornly out on the moor to the next sodden whin bush, the prickles of which yirked him as he threw himself down.
Patsy 1887
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CHAPTER X. "Such a rickle of furniture I never saw!" said the Provost.
The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885
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To be apprehended by some ragged John-Hielandmen on August 30th, carried to a rickle of old stones that is now neither fort nor gaol (whatever it once was) but just the gamekeeper's lodge of the Bass Rock, and set free again, September
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She's but a rickle o 'auld rotten deals nailed thegither, and warped wi' the wind and the sea --- and I am a dour carle, battered by foul weather at sea and land till I am maist as senseless as hersell.
The Antiquary 1845
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She's but a rickle o 'auld rotten deals nailed thegither, and warped wi' the wind and the sea -- and I am a dour carle, battered by foul weather at sea and land till I am maist as senseless as hersell.
The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
bilby commented on the word rickle
Scots - pile, loose heap.
A very thin person could be described as 'a rickle of banes'.
December 26, 2007