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 "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
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
The bull-dog, which had been asleep in one of the warm corners of the ingle, crept out yawning and wagging his stump of a tail by way of greeting.
From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Leighton, Robert
To the left are a cheerful glowing fire and ingle.
From Contemporary One-Act Plays by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
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