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▪ I. rickle, n.1 Lanc. dial.|ˈrɪk(ə)l|
[f. rickle v.1]
A rattling or clattering noise; rattle.
1867Brierley Marlocks ii, Aw con tell him bi th' rickle of his clog buckles.
▪ II. rickle, n.2 Sc., Anglo-Ir., and north.|ˈrɪk(ə)l|
Also 6–7 rickill.
[Perh. of Scand. origin: a Norw. dial. rikl (also rigl) of similar meaning is given by Ross. In sense 2 there may be some connexion with rick n.1, which however has no currency in Scotland.]
1. a. A heap or pile, esp. one loosely built up; a collection of odds and ends heaped up together; a ramshackle erection. Also fig.
1535Lyndesay Satyre 4356 Syne, all turnit to ane rickill of farts. 1603Philotus xxxi. (Bann.), Ȝe sall haue ay quhill ȝe cry ho, Rickillis of gould and jewellis. 1692Sir W. Hope Fencing Master 37 You may step over a little furrow, or a rickle of stones. 1816Scott Antiq. ix, A rickle o' useless boxes and trunks. Ibid. xxxiv, She's but a rickle o' auld rotten deals nailed thegither. 1844Mrs. Carlyle New Lett. (1903) I. 137 Speke Hall..the queerest-looking old rickle of boards and plaster that I ever set eyes on. 1882Cornhill Mag. May 537 Rickles of brick as he might call them. 1922J. Buchan Huntingtower iii. 57 Huntingtower was the auld rickle o' stanes at the sea-end. 1934E. Linklater Magnus Merriman 197 There was a smug trim smooth little minister..and a rickle of rural inanity behind. 1963Field Archaeol. (Ordnance Survey) (ed. 4) 53 A careful search will often show associated hut sites and even field boundaries in the form of long rickles of stones.
b. A ramshackle or broken-down object.
1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb (1873) 214 They've gotten a secont-han' rickle o' a piano. 1899S. MacManus Chimney Corners 228 He began to consider how he could sell his rickle of a pony to advantage.
2. A heap of corn, hay, or flax; a pile of sheaves.
1785Burns 3rd Ep. J. Lapraik 8 May Boreas never thresh your rigs, Nor kick your rickles aff their legs. 1851A. Marshall in Schroeder Ann. Yorks. I. 420 Drying the flax in cappelles, or rickles as we call them... The stick prevents the rickle being blown over. 1862Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XXIII. 217 These ‘rickles’ contain from 100 to 150 sheaves, and cost about 2d. per hundred sheaves..for building. 1871G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 213 [Lancs.] Roberts says the first grass from the scythe is the swathe, then comes the strow (tedding), then rowing, then the foot⁓cocks, then breaking, then the hubrows, which are gathered into hubs, then sometimes another break and turning, then rickles, the biggest of all the cocks, which are run together into placks, the shapeless heaps from which the hay is carted.
3. A pile or stack of peats. (See quots.)
1700Black Bk. Kincardineshire (1843) 130 He hid the said web among a rickle of truffs. 1825Jamieson, Peats or turfs put up in heaps or small stacks, to prepare them for being winter provision, are called rickles. 1842S. C. Hall Ireland II. 263 note, A rickle contains about ten footings laid on their sides, one turf deep and built up about two feet high. 1892Ballymena Obs. (E.D.D.), A rickle differs from a clamp in being long and narrow instead of circular. 1957E. E. Evans Irish Folk Ways xiv. 184 The peats are turned and built into larger and larger piles, turn-foots, castles, rickles, lumps and clamps. 1979Country Life 27 Sept. 964/1 Turf..will be built into..piles with varying names such as rickles, castles, lumps and clamps.
▪ III. rickle, v.1 Lanc. dial.|ˈrɪkl|
Also 5 rekil.
[Of obscure origin; perhaps merely imitative. Modern north. dial. has also rick in the same sense.]
intr. To rattle, to clatter.
The use of the word in Urquhart's Rabelais is no doubt due to copying from Cotgrave, who belonged to Cheshire. Holland's Cheshire Gloss. (1886) gives rickka or rickker as meaning ‘to rattle’.
a1400–50Alexander 566 Þen rekils it vnruydly & raynes doune stanys. 1611Cotgr., Grillotter, to ring, rickle, ratle, crackle. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xlv, He..went aside and ratling the Bladder took a huge Delight in the Melody of the rickling crackling noise of the Peas. 1863Brierley Waverlow 168 The ‘angles’ of the garden gate squeaked, the latch ‘rickled’.
Hence ˈrickling vbl. n.1
1611Cotgr., Grillottement, a ringing, rickling, ratling, or crackling.
▪ IV. ˈrickle, v.2 Sc. and north.
[f. rickle n.2]
trans. To make or form into a ‘rickle’ or stack. Hence ˈrickling vbl. n.2
1793Statist. Acc. Scotl., Kirkmichael VI. 104 note, There is a method of preserving corn, peculiar to this part of the country, called Rickling. 1842S. C. Hall Ireland II. 263 note, The fourth operation [in peat-making] is rickling. 1851A. Marshall in Schroeder Ann. Yorks. I. 420 It is easier for the hands to rickle the flax round these stakes. 1862Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XXIII. 217 If the weather is wet and precarious, the corn is ‘rickled’ close up to the hook, scythe, or machines. |