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
The handsome, motherly landlady looked after every guest; and Arnold, the jolliest landlord that ever lived, sat smoking in the ingle, chatting with some traveller, or listening to the yarn of a lake fisherman.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various
Martin stood somewhat shyly near the broad ingle.
From The Revellers by Tracy, Louis
Grate there was none, and the fire must burn on the hearth-stone, but a good stack of dry peat and heather stood in the ingle nook, evidently left ready for use.
From A Terrible Tomboy by Brazil, Angela
Claes, Soetkin, and Nele were gossiping together about the ingle, and talked of the pilgrim on his pilgrimage.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de
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