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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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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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)
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
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
Ruckle, rickle, sb. a little heap of anything.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
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