ingle
Americannoun
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a fire burning in a hearth.
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a fireplace; hearth.
noun
Etymology
Origin of ingle
First recorded in 1500–10, ingle is from the Scots Gaelic word aingeal fire
Example Sentences
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Paddy says, Fintan, what’s an ingle? and Fintan says it’s just a boy from olden times who sits in a corner, that’s all.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
To the left are a cheerful glowing fire and ingle.
From Contemporary One-Act Plays by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
Can I forget my father's hearth— My mother by the ingle spinnin— Their weel-pleased look to see the mirth O' a' their bairnies round them rinnin?
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
There he sat in the ingle by the chimney corner, like a cat, and grubbed in the ashes and split fir tapers.
From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.
The "Spirit of the Age" has exorcised the spirits of the ingle and the forest.
From John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings by Kennedy, W. Sloane
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