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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Ruckle, rickle, sb. a little heap of anything.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
"Such a rickle of furniture I never saw!" said the Provost.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
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 Neil Munro
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 John Buchan
There already was gathered a black cloud of folk under the rickle of stones that runs slidingly down from the steep brow of Craigfacie.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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