rickle
Britishnoun
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an unsteady or shaky structure, esp a dilapidated building
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a loose or disorganized heap
Etymology
Origin of rickle
C16: perhaps of Scandinavian origin
Example Sentences
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A rickle o' banes, a person who is very meagre.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander
"Such a rickle of furniture I never saw!" said the Provost.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
The Se�ora was a little woman—a mere "rickle of bones," in Jean's Scottish phrase, and hardly heavier than a stout six months' lamb.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Do you wonder that my desire went out to her greatly, and that all in a moment I sprang down the rickle of stones as if they had been a made road?
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
She indicated with an indignant sweep of the hand what she designated “a rickle o’ rubbish” as the net proceeds of Boyd’s industry.
From The Dew of Their Youth by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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