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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An auld done rickle: I've seen a better barn i' the Lothians, and fancy me tryin' to let on that it's a kind o' Edinbro'!
From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil
It was twae miles from Wamphray on the Lockerbie road, but they tell me the place is noo just a rickle o' stanes.'
From Mr. Standfast by Buchan, John
"Such a rickle of furniture I never saw!" said the Provost.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
He crawled backward, now scuttling from one little rickle of peats left forlornly out on the moor to the next sodden whin bush, the prickles of which yirked him as he threw himself down.
From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
When I was a lassie they ca'ed it Dalquharter Hoose, and Huntingtower was the auld rickle o' stanes at the sea-end.
From Huntingtower by Buchan, John
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