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
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"An auld done rickle o' a place!" he soliloquised, lifting a candle high that it might show the shame of the denuded and crumbling walls.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
I gaed up the stair o' a wee brick hoose nearly tumlin' doon wi' its ain wecht—a perfect rickle o' brick—an' chappit.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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
"Such a rickle of furniture I never saw!" said the Provost.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
A rickle o' banes, a person who is very meagre.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Alexander Leighton
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