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• 韻: -ɪkəl

名詞

rickle (複数形 rickles)

1. (chiefly Scotland) A loose, disordered collection of things; a heap; a jumble.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Canongate Books (2008), →ISBN, page 22:

     It was no more than a butt and a ben, with a rickle of sheds behind it where old Pooty kept his donkey that was nearly as old […]

2. (chiefly Scotland) A small rick of grain.
3. (chiefly Scotland) A dilapidated or ramshackle building.
   • 1844, Jane Welsh Carlyle, letter to Thomas Carlyle dated 28 June 1844, re-printed in New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle (ed. Alexander Carlyle), John Lane (1903), pages 136-137:

     We came home by a place called Speke Hall — built 1589 — the queerest-looking old rickle of boards that I ever set eyes on; […]

4. (chiefly Scotland) Any object in poor condition, particularly a vehicle.
   • 1899, Golf Illustrated, Volume 2, page 93:

     On a memorable night was the old rickle of a boat taken out to the West Sands during a terrible storm, when Admiral Maitland Dougall distinguished himself by his valiant services.

5. (chiefly Scotland) An emaciated person or animal.
   • 1899, Seumas MacManus, In Chimney Corners: Merry Tales of Irish Folk Lore, Doubleday & McClure (1899), page 228:

     But it's a bad disaise that can't be cured somehow, Manis said to himself — so be began to consider how to sell his rickle of a pony to advantage.

引用

• For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:rickle.

関連する語

• rick
• rickle o' banes

アナグラム

• Rickel, ickler, licker, relick