rickle

noun Scot

an unsteady or shaky structure, esp a dilapidated building
a loose or disorganized heap

Word Origin for rickle

C16: perhaps of Scandinavian origin

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Historical Examples of rickle

There was but one window in the little "rickle of brick" which their pawnbroking Jew landlord called a "commodious cottage."
Cleg Kelly, Arab of the City
S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Rickle; a little heap of turf peats standing on ends against each other.
English As We Speak It in Ireland
P. W. Joyce