ricklen.¹

Brit.

/ˈrɪk(ə)l/, U.S.

/ˈrɪk(ə)l/, Scottish English

/ˈrɪk(ə)l/, Irish English

/ˈrɪk(ə)l/

Forms: 1600s– rickle, 1800s– rickel (English regional (Northumberland)); Scottish pre-1700 rekill, pre-1700 rickill, pre-1700 ricle, pre-1700 rikkill, pre-1700 rikle, pre-1700 1700s– rickle, 1900s– rickel, 1900s– rikkel (Shetland), 1900s– rikkil, 1900s– rikkle (Shetland).

Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian.

Etymology: Probably a merging of the reflexes of two distinct borrowings < early Scandinavian: (i) a borrowing of a form cognate with Norwegian regional rygle small heap, loosely constructed stack, probably reflecting earlier *rykla < an ablaut variant (zero-grade) of the Germanic base of rick n.¹ (compare ruck n.¹) + the Germanic base of -el suffix¹; compare also (with o -grade) Swedish regional (southern) rögel , rögla small stack (especially of turfs), Danish regional røgl , røgel , røgle heap (especially of peats), stack of turfs, pile of sheaves; and (ii) a borrowing of a form cognate with Norwegian regional rikl , rigl , Swedish regional rikkel , both in sense ‘something loosely or badly constructed’ < the Scandinavian base of Norwegian rikke to move, stir, Swedish regional ricka to be shaky or unsteady, totter, rock, sway (probably an intensive formation < the same Scandinavian base as Norwegian (Nynorsk) riga to rock, sway, Old Icelandic riga to move, stir, to lift heavily or with difficulty, further etymology uncertain; compare also German regional (Low German: East Friesland) rikken to move from side to side, rock, sway, probably a borrowing from Scandinavian) + the Scandinavian base of -el suffix¹. Compare slightly earlier rickle v.², and see discussion at that entry. Compare also ruckle n.¹ Derivation < rick n.¹ + -le suffix is perhaps possible (forms of the relevant type are attested in Older Scots, but only very rarely), but the much earlier attestation in Britain of post-classical Latin ricklare (see rickle v.²) makes this extremely unlikely.In sense 1b perhaps influenced by rick n.¹

Chiefly Scottish, Irish English, and English regional (chiefly northern).

a. A stack of turfs or peats.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > other organic fuels > [noun] > turf or peat > a stack or pile

peat stack1501

rickle1565

leet1742

1565 in J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1886) IV. 304/1 ½ lie ricle lie turffis a mora de Scona.

1600 in J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1890) VI. 445/2 6 lie rickles glebarum.

1700 Black Bk. Kincardineshire (1843) 130 He hid the said web among a rickle of truffs.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Peats or turfs put up in heaps or small stacks, to prepare them for being winter provision, are called rickles.

1842 S. C. Hall & A. M. 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.

1912 S. R. Crockett Moss Troopers xxxii. 246 One little rickle of peats left forlornly out on the moor.

1946 J. C. Milne Orra Loon 8 To set the peats in rickles on a bonnie simmer's day.

1957 E. 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.

1999 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 9 Apr. 13 A loose clump of peats, towards the end of the drying stage, was called a rickle.

b. A stack of hay, corn, etc.; a pile of sheaves.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack or rick

moweOE

rickeOE

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stackc1330

tassc1330

rucka1382

hayrick14..

haystack14..

sedge reekc1440

hay-mow1483

hay-goaf1570

rack1574

hovel1591

scroo1604

mow-stack1611

sow1659

corn-rick1669

bean-rick1677

barley-mow1714

pea rick1766

rickle1768

bike1771

stacklet1796

bean-stack1828

1768 C. Varlo Mod. Farmers Guide I. 38 The sheaves being in two parts,..one half of which is enough for a rickle.

a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 122 May Boreas never thresh your rigs, Nor kick your rickles aff their legs.

1851 A. Marshall in H. Schroeder Ann. Yorks. I. 420 Drying the flax in cappelles, or rickles as we call them... The stick prevents the rickle being blown over.

1862 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 23 217 These ‘rickles’ contain from 100 to 150 sheaves, and cost about 2d. per hundred sheaves..for building.

1957 H. Hall Parish's Dict. Sussex Dial. (new ed.) 106/1 From 12 to 16 stooks of corn form one rickle.

1975 J. Y. Mather & H. H. Speitel Ling. Atlas Scotl. I. 261 Heap of hay, [Kincardine, Stirling, Ayr, Lanark, Midlothian, Kirkcudbright, Wigtown] Rickle.

2005 J. Bell Ulster Farming Families iv. 51 Then it was tied [in sheaves] and put in a rickle.

a. More generally: a loosely constructed heap or pile of something. Also figurative and in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > mass formed by collection of particles > an accumulation > heap or pile > loosely built

rickle1603

1603 Philotus xxxi. sig. B2 ^v Ȝe sall haue ay quhill ȝe cry ho, Rickillis of gould and jewellis.

1692 W. Hope Compl. Fencing-master (ed. 2) 37 You may step over a little furrow, or a rickle of stones.

1759 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. (at cited word) What the Deponent means by a Stone dike, was a Rickle of Stones thrown in to stop People's Passage.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. ix. 204 A rickle o' useless boxes and trunks.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. v. 94 She's but a rickle o' auld rotten deals nailed thegither.

1844 J. W. Carlyle New Lett. (1903) I. 137 Speke Hall..the queerest-looking old rickle of boards and plaster that I ever set eyes on.

1882 Cornhill Mag. May 537 Rickles of brick as he might call them.

1922 J. Buchan Huntingtower iii. 57 Huntingtower was the auld rickle o' stanes at the sea-end.

1963 Field Archaeol. (Ordnance Surv.) (ed. 4) 53 A careful search will often show associated hut sites and even field boundaries in the form of long rickles of stones.

1994 J. Galloway Foreign Parts vii. 89 A rickle of crates and boxes with peaches on thin wood scaffolding, holding itself together to hold the fruit.

1998 S. Blackhall in Lallans 51 15 There wes a dunt, a shuggle, an a rickle o flames teirin out o the rocket's dowp, an up intae the hivvens it gaed.

b. Something (esp. a building) which is ramshackle or dilapidated.

ΚΠ

1798 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XX. 52 The poor tenant patches up a miserable rickle, with a damp earthen floor, more like a humble sheep-cote, than the rural habitation of the generous farmer.

1798 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XX. 76 The market was..filled with bad meal, lost in the drying, from the insufficiency of these rickles of buildings to perform the work.

1839 Wilson's Hist. Tales Borders V. 323 See naething but that rickle o' a house.

1863 D. Wingate Poems & Songs (ed. 1) 92 Thou kicks thy rickle o' a cart Wi' angry heels.

1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xxxviii. 266 They've gotten a secont-han' rickle o' a piano.

1901 N. Munro Doom Castle xxv An auld done rickle o' a place!

1929 H. Marwick Orkney Norn 141/1 Rickle, a very loosely-built structure.

1957 Bon-accord 18 Apr. 8 His latest deal in cars—a rael 1930 rickle o' aul' iron.

2005 D. Purves Chrysants (SCOTS) Sen he wes laird o Liang, a thousan years haes flaen, O aw the touers he biggit yon rikkil stauns alane.

3. Chiefly in rickle of bones. A very lean person or animal; a skeleton.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > person having

staffc1405

notomy1487

rakea1529

crag1542

scrag1542

sneakbill1546

starveling1546

slim1548

ghost1590

bald-rib1598

bare-bone1598

bow-case1599

atomy1600

sneaksbill1602

thin-gut1602

anatomya1616

sharg1623

skeleton1630

raw-bone1635

living skeleton1650

strammel1706

scarecrow1711

rickle of bones1729

shargar1754

squeeze-crab1785

rack of bones1804

thread-paper1824

bag of bones1838

dry-bones1845

skinnymalink1870

hairpin1879

slim jim1889

skinny1907

underweight1910

asthenic1925

ectomorph1940

skinny-malinky1957

matchstick1959

1729 W. Mackintosh Ess. on Inclosing Scotl. 131 Cows,..such as..are no longer good to breed or milk:..that lean Rickle of Bones, is all the Butcher can pick up in Fife and Lothian, from Candlemas to June.

1883 Ld. Saltoun Scraps I. i. 85 From the impossibility of putting flesh upon his carcase he always looked like a rickle of bones.

1899 S. MacManus In Chimney Corners 228 He began to consider how he could sell his rickle of a pony to advantage.

1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood ii. 46 The nag which the third led was a mere rickle of bones.

1968 J. McCormack in Times (1969) 11 Feb. p. viii/1 The poor rickle of bones In the box raised in the corner.

2000 M. Fitt But n Ben A-go-go viii. 69 Need tae rejine Gold's. Git fit. Git het. Anorexic. Look at ye. A rickle o banes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

ricklen.²

Brit.

/ˈrɪk(ə)l/, U.S.

/ˈrɪk(ə)l/, Scottish English

/ˈrɪk(ə)l/

Forms: 1600s rickill (Scottish), 1800s– rickle.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rickle v.¹

Etymology: < rickle v.¹ Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records the word as still in use in north-eastern Scotland and Fife in 1968.

Scottish and English regional (Lancashire).

A succession of noises; a rattle or clatter. Cf. rickle v.¹

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > rattling

brattle?a1513

rattle?a1513

brittle-brattle1535

rattling1555

rottle1680

brattling1771

tirl1808

rittle-rattle1837

rickle1867

1602 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Charteris) 4356 in Wks. (1931) II. 383 Syne all turnit to ane rickill of farts.

1867 B. Brierley Marlocks of Merriton ii. 26 Aw con tell him bi th' rickle of his clog buckles.

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ricklev.¹

Brit.

/ˈrɪk(ə)l/, U.S.

/ˈrɪk(ə)l/, Scottish English

/ˈrɪk(ə)l/

Forms: late Middle English rekil, late Middle English rekle, late Middle English rikel, 1600s– rickle.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Probably an imitative or expressive formation.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Probably ultimately imitative. Perhaps < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic hrikþo (3rd person plural past tense) creaked, Icelandic hrikkja to creak, hrikta to creak). Compare later crickle v. and other forms cited at that entry. However, perhaps compare also rickle n.¹ 2 and ruckly adj.²Compare also English regional (Lancashire and Cheshire) ricker, rickkerrickka in similar use, and also as noun in sense ‘(child's) rattle’ (19th cent.: see Eng. Dial. Dict. at ricker sb. and v.).

In later use Scottish and English regional (chiefly Lancashire).

intransitive. To make a rattling, clattering, or jingling sound.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > rattle

rattlec1330

hoursch?a1400

rottlea1400

ruttlea1400

ricklec1400

to tirl at the latch, at the sneck15..

clitter1530

ruckle1700

jar1735

knock1869

ratchet1907

c1400 Femina (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 9 (MED) Qe gelyne hupe, Ruke, & patille, Et qui trop se auaunte oultre reson: þt hen clokkeþ, Rekleþ, & kakleþ, And he þt to moche auantyþ hym aboue reson.

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 566 (MED) Þen rekils it vnruydly & raynes doune stanys.

c1450 in J. Norri Names of Sicknesses in Eng. 1400–1550 (1992) 124 When on haþe þe asma he ratelith & rikelith in his ondying.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Grillotter, to ring, rickle, ratle, crackle.

1775 J. Whitaker Hist. Manch. II. viii. 314 Rickle, to gingle, Manchester.

1863 B. Brierley Chrons. Waverlow 168 The ‘angles’ of the garden gate squeaked, the latch ‘rickled’.

1914 G. B. Thomson in G. Greig Folk-song of North-east II. cxxxvi. 1/2 For the pantry skyelf cam' ricklin' doon.

1968 Huntly Express (Aberdeen) 5 Oct. Comin' ricklin' doon the slates like a steen.

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ricklev.²

Brit.

/ˈrɪk(ə)l/, U.S.

/ˈrɪk(ə)l/, Scottish English

/ˈrɪk(ə)l/, Irish English

/ˈrɪk(ə)l/

Forms: see rickle n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Or (ii) a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: rickle n.¹

Etymology: Either < rickle n.¹ (although this is first attested slightly later), or the reflex of a borrowing from early Scandinavian (compare Norwegian regional rygla to heap up (stones) (probably reflecting earlier *rykla ) < rygle small heap (see rickle n.¹); compare also Norwegian regional røykla to heap up, stack, Swedish regional (southern) rögla to stack (turfs), Danish regional røgle to stack (turfs), all < the Scandinavian base of Swedish regional rögel small stack: see rickle n.¹). Much earlier currency (probably also of rickle n.¹) is implied by post-classical Latin ricklare to stack (peats) (1337 in a source from Durham), unless this is a borrowing directly < early Scandinavian. Compare also ruckle v.¹

Chiefly Scottish, Irish English, and English regional (chiefly northern).

transitive. To form into a stack or rickle (rickle n.¹). In early use frequently with up.

ΚΠ

1557 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1880) II. 175 Thay..sall help to fut and rekill the samyn [peats] ȝerelie, with tway lang draucht to lyme, sclait..or colis.

1595 A. Duncan Appendix Etymologiae: Index in Latinae Grammaticae Maceries, a wall rickled vp of stones.

1685 J. Durham Heaven upon Earth iii. 230 The builder of a house, who rickleth up stones without Square and Rule.

1699 Ld. Belhaven Countrey-mans Rudim. 25 It would be no difficult task to rickle up a dry Stone dike.

1759 Memorial for A. Walker & P. Herd 7 In July they begin to rickle, or put them [sc. peats] in Wind-rows..and thereafter immediately to cut their Hay.

1799 Prize Ess. & Trans. Highland Soc. Scotl. 1 91 Any repairs it may require will only be on that part of it which is rickled.

1851 A. Marshall in H. Schroeder Ann. Yorks. I. 420 It is easier for the hands to rickle the flax round these stakes.

1862 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 23 217 If the weather is wet and precarious, the corn is ‘rickled’ close up to the hook, scythe, or machines.

1908 P. F. Jones Shamrock-land vi. 169 The turf is then rickled. A rickle contains about ten footings or sixty turfs.

1946 Observer 22 Sept. [Ayrshire] To rickle the corn is to gather together 10 or 12 sheaves into one large stook, heads well inwards, and lay on the top a single sheaf on its side splayed out circularly.

1992 R. Hunt My Falkland Days 20 Every householder was allocated a bank and had to cut and 'rickle' his own peat.

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n.¹1565

n.²1602

v.¹c1400

v.²1557

单词	rickle
释义	ricklen.¹ Brit. /ˈrɪk(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈrɪk(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈrɪk(ə)l/, Irish English /ˈrɪk(ə)l/ Forms: 1600s– rickle, 1800s– rickel (English regional (Northumberland)); Scottish pre-1700 rekill, pre-1700 rickill, pre-1700 ricle, pre-1700 rikkill, pre-1700 rikle, pre-1700 1700s– rickle, 1900s– rickel, 1900s– rikkel (Shetland), 1900s– rikkil, 1900s– rikkle (Shetland). Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymology: Probably a merging of the reflexes of two distinct borrowings < early Scandinavian: (i) a borrowing of a form cognate with Norwegian regional rygle small heap, loosely constructed stack, probably reflecting earlier rykla < an ablaut variant (zero-grade) of the Germanic base of rick n.¹ (compare ruck n.¹) + the Germanic base of -el suffix¹; compare also (with o -grade) Swedish regional (southern) rögel* , rögla small stack (especially of turfs), Danish regional røgl , røgel , røgle heap (especially of peats), stack of turfs, pile of sheaves; and (ii) a borrowing of a form cognate with Norwegian regional rikl , rigl , Swedish regional rikkel , both in sense ‘something loosely or badly constructed’ < the Scandinavian base of Norwegian rikke to move, stir, Swedish regional ricka to be shaky or unsteady, totter, rock, sway (probably an intensive formation < the same Scandinavian base as Norwegian (Nynorsk) riga to rock, sway, Old Icelandic riga to move, stir, to lift heavily or with difficulty, further etymology uncertain; compare also German regional (Low German: East Friesland) rikken to move from side to side, rock, sway, probably a borrowing from Scandinavian) + the Scandinavian base of -el suffix¹. Compare slightly earlier rickle v.², and see discussion at that entry. Compare also ruckle n.¹ Derivation < rick n.¹ + -le suffix is perhaps possible (forms of the relevant type are attested in Older Scots, but only very rarely), but the much earlier attestation in Britain of post-classical Latin ricklare (see rickle v.²) makes this extremely unlikely.In sense 1b perhaps influenced by rick n.¹ Chiefly Scottish, Irish English, and English regional (chiefly northern). 1. a. A stack of turfs or peats. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > other organic fuels > [noun] > turf or peat > a stack or pile peat stack1501 rickle1565 leet1742 1565 in J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1886) IV. 304/1 ½ lie ricle lie turffis a mora de Scona. 1600 in J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1890) VI. 445/2 6 lie rickles glebarum. 1700 Black Bk. Kincardineshire (1843) 130 He hid the said web among a rickle of truffs. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Peats or turfs put up in heaps or small stacks, to prepare them for being winter provision, are called rickles. 1842 S. C. Hall & A. M. 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. 1912 S. R. Crockett Moss Troopers xxxii. 246 One little rickle of peats left forlornly out on the moor. 1946 J. C. Milne Orra Loon 8 To set the peats in rickles on a bonnie simmer's day. 1957 E. 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. 1999 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 9 Apr. 13 A loose clump of peats, towards the end of the drying stage, was called a rickle. b. A stack of hay, corn, etc.; a pile of sheaves. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack or rick moweOE rickeOE pease-ricka1325 stackc1330 tassc1330 rucka1382 hayrick14.. haystack14.. sedge reekc1440 hay-mow1483 hay-goaf1570 rack1574 hovel1591 scroo1604 mow-stack1611 sow1659 corn-rick1669 bean-rick1677 barley-mow1714 pea rick1766 rickle1768 bike1771 stacklet1796 bean-stack1828 1768 C. Varlo Mod. Farmers Guide I. 38 The sheaves being in two parts,..one half of which is enough for a rickle. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 122 May Boreas never thresh your rigs, Nor kick your rickles aff their legs. 1851 A. Marshall in H. Schroeder Ann. Yorks. I. 420 Drying the flax in cappelles, or rickles as we call them... The stick prevents the rickle being blown over. 1862 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 23 217 These ‘rickles’ contain from 100 to 150 sheaves, and cost about 2d. per hundred sheaves..for building. 1957 H. Hall Parish's Dict. Sussex Dial. (new ed.) 106/1 From 12 to 16 stooks of corn form one rickle. 1975 J. Y. Mather & H. H. Speitel Ling. Atlas Scotl. I. 261 Heap of hay, [Kincardine, Stirling, Ayr, Lanark, Midlothian, Kirkcudbright, Wigtown] Rickle. 2005 J. Bell Ulster Farming Families iv. 51 Then it was tied [in sheaves] and put in a rickle. 2. a. More generally: a loosely constructed heap or pile of something. Also figurative and in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > mass formed by collection of particles > an accumulation > heap or pile > loosely built rickle1603 1603 Philotus xxxi. sig. B2 ^v Ȝe sall haue ay quhill ȝe cry ho, Rickillis of gould and jewellis. 1692 W. Hope Compl. Fencing-master (ed. 2) 37 You may step over a little furrow, or a rickle of stones. 1759 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. (at cited word) What the Deponent means by a Stone dike, was a Rickle of Stones thrown in to stop People's Passage. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. ix. 204 A rickle o' useless boxes and trunks. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. v. 94 She's but a rickle o' auld rotten deals nailed thegither. 1844 J. W. Carlyle New Lett. (1903) I. 137 Speke Hall..the queerest-looking old rickle of boards and plaster that I ever set eyes on. 1882 Cornhill Mag. May 537 Rickles of brick as he might call them. 1922 J. Buchan Huntingtower iii. 57 Huntingtower was the auld rickle o' stanes at the sea-end. 1963 Field Archaeol. (Ordnance Surv.) (ed. 4) 53 A careful search will often show associated hut sites and even field boundaries in the form of long rickles of stones. 1994 J. Galloway Foreign Parts vii. 89 A rickle of crates and boxes with peaches on thin wood scaffolding, holding itself together to hold the fruit. 1998 S. Blackhall in Lallans 51 15 There wes a dunt, a shuggle, an a rickle o flames teirin out o the rocket's dowp, an up intae the hivvens it gaed. b. Something (esp. a building) which is ramshackle or dilapidated. ΚΠ 1798 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XX. 52 The poor tenant patches up a miserable rickle, with a damp earthen floor, more like a humble sheep-cote, than the rural habitation of the generous farmer. 1798 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XX. 76 The market was..filled with bad meal, lost in the drying, from the insufficiency of these rickles of buildings to perform the work. 1839 Wilson's Hist. Tales Borders V. 323 See naething but that rickle o' a house. 1863 D. Wingate Poems & Songs (ed. 1) 92 Thou kicks thy rickle o' a cart Wi' angry heels. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xxxviii. 266 They've gotten a secont-han' rickle o' a piano. 1901 N. Munro Doom Castle xxv An auld done rickle o' a place! 1929 H. Marwick Orkney Norn 141/1 Rickle, a very loosely-built structure. 1957 Bon-accord 18 Apr. 8 His latest deal in cars—a rael 1930 rickle o' aul' iron. 2005 D. Purves Chrysants (SCOTS) Sen he wes laird o Liang, a thousan years haes flaen, O aw the touers he biggit yon rikkil stauns alane. 3. Chiefly in rickle of bones. A very lean person or animal; a skeleton. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > person having staffc1405 notomy1487 rakea1529 crag1542 scrag1542 sneakbill1546 starveling1546 slim1548 ghost1590 bald-rib1598 bare-bone1598 bow-case1599 atomy1600 sneaksbill1602 thin-gut1602 anatomya1616 sharg1623 skeleton1630 raw-bone1635 living skeleton1650 strammel1706 scarecrow1711 rickle of bones1729 shargar1754 squeeze-crab1785 rack of bones1804 thread-paper1824 bag of bones1838 dry-bones1845 skinnymalink1870 hairpin1879 slim jim1889 skinny1907 underweight1910 asthenic1925 ectomorph1940 skinny-malinky1957 matchstick1959 1729 W. Mackintosh Ess. on Inclosing Scotl. 131 Cows,..such as..are no longer good to breed or milk:..that lean Rickle of Bones, is all the Butcher can pick up in Fife and Lothian, from Candlemas to June. 1883 Ld. Saltoun Scraps I. i. 85 From the impossibility of putting flesh upon his carcase he always looked like a rickle of bones. 1899 S. MacManus In Chimney Corners 228 He began to consider how he could sell his rickle of a pony to advantage. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood ii. 46 The nag which the third led was a mere rickle of bones. 1968 J. McCormack in Times (1969) 11 Feb. p. viii/1 The poor rickle of bones In the box raised in the corner. 2000 M. Fitt But n Ben A-go-go viii. 69 Need tae rejine Gold's. Git fit. Git het. Anorexic. Look at ye. A rickle o banes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). ricklen.² Brit. /ˈrɪk(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈrɪk(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈrɪk(ə)l/ Forms: 1600s rickill (Scottish), 1800s– rickle. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rickle v.¹ Etymology: < rickle v.¹ Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records the word as still in use in north-eastern Scotland and Fife in 1968. Scottish and English regional (Lancashire). A succession of noises; a rattle or clatter. Cf. rickle v.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > rattling brattle?a1513 rattle?a1513 brittle-brattle1535 rattling1555 rottle1680 brattling1771 tirl1808 rittle-rattle1837 rickle1867 1602 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Charteris) 4356 in Wks. (1931) II. 383 Syne all turnit to ane rickill of farts. 1867 B. Brierley Marlocks of Merriton ii. 26 Aw con tell him bi th' rickle of his clog buckles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). ricklev.¹ Brit. /ˈrɪk(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈrɪk(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈrɪk(ə)l/ Forms: late Middle English rekil, late Middle English rekle, late Middle English rikel, 1600s– rickle. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Probably an imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Probably ultimately imitative. Perhaps < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic hrikþo (3rd person plural past tense) creaked, Icelandic hrikkja to creak, hrikta to creak). Compare later crickle v. and other forms cited at that entry. However, perhaps compare also rickle n.¹ 2 and ruckly adj.²Compare also English regional (Lancashire and Cheshire) ricker, rickkerrickka in similar use, and also as noun in sense ‘(child's) rattle’ (19th cent.: see Eng. Dial. Dict. at ricker sb. and v.). In later use Scottish and English regional (chiefly Lancashire). intransitive. To make a rattling, clattering, or jingling sound. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > rattle rattlec1330 hoursch?a1400 rottlea1400 ruttlea1400 ricklec1400 to tirl at the latch, at the sneck15.. clitter1530 ruckle1700 jar1735 knock1869 ratchet1907 c1400 Femina (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 9 (MED) Qe gelyne hupe, Ruke, & patille, Et qui trop se auaunte oultre reson: þt hen clokkeþ, Rekleþ, & kakleþ, And he þt to moche auantyþ hym aboue reson. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 566 (MED) Þen rekils it vnruydly & raynes doune stanys. c1450 in J. Norri Names of Sicknesses in Eng. 1400–1550 (1992) 124 When on haþe þe asma he ratelith & rikelith in his ondying. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Grillotter, to ring, rickle, ratle, crackle. 1775 J. Whitaker Hist. Manch. II. viii. 314 Rickle, to gingle, Manchester. 1863 B. Brierley Chrons. Waverlow 168 The ‘angles’ of the garden gate squeaked, the latch ‘rickled’. 1914 G. B. Thomson in G. Greig Folk-song of North-east II. cxxxvi. 1/2 For the pantry skyelf cam' ricklin' doon. 1968 Huntly Express (Aberdeen) 5 Oct. Comin' ricklin' doon the slates like a steen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). ricklev.² Brit. /ˈrɪk(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈrɪk(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈrɪk(ə)l/, Irish English /ˈrɪk(ə)l/ Forms: see rickle n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Or (ii) a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: rickle n.¹ Etymology: Either < rickle n.¹ (although this is first attested slightly later), or the reflex of a borrowing from early Scandinavian (compare Norwegian regional rygla to heap up (stones) (probably reflecting earlier rykla ) < rygle* small heap (see rickle n.¹); compare also Norwegian regional røykla to heap up, stack, Swedish regional (southern) rögla to stack (turfs), Danish regional røgle to stack (turfs), all < the Scandinavian base of Swedish regional rögel small stack: see rickle n.¹). Much earlier currency (probably also of rickle n.¹) is implied by post-classical Latin ricklare to stack (peats) (1337 in a source from Durham), unless this is a borrowing directly < early Scandinavian. Compare also ruckle v.¹ Chiefly Scottish, Irish English, and English regional (chiefly northern). transitive. To form into a stack or rickle (rickle n.¹). In early use frequently with up. ΚΠ 1557 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1880) II. 175 Thay..sall help to fut and rekill the samyn [peats] ȝerelie, with tway lang draucht to lyme, sclait..or colis. 1595 A. Duncan Appendix Etymologiae: Index in Latinae Grammaticae Maceries, a wall rickled vp of stones. 1685 J. Durham Heaven upon Earth iii. 230 The builder of a house, who rickleth up stones without Square and Rule. 1699 Ld. Belhaven Countrey-mans Rudim. 25 It would be no difficult task to rickle up a dry Stone dike. 1759 Memorial for A. Walker & P. Herd 7 In July they begin to rickle, or put them [sc. peats] in Wind-rows..and thereafter immediately to cut their Hay. 1799 Prize Ess. & Trans. Highland Soc. Scotl. 1 91 Any repairs it may require will only be on that part of it which is rickled. 1851 A. Marshall in H. Schroeder Ann. Yorks. I. 420 It is easier for the hands to rickle the flax round these stakes. 1862 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 23 217 If the weather is wet and precarious, the corn is ‘rickled’ close up to the hook, scythe, or machines. 1908 P. F. Jones Shamrock-land vi. 169 The turf is then rickled. A rickle contains about ten footings or sixty turfs. 1946 Observer 22 Sept. [Ayrshire] To rickle the corn is to gather together 10 or 12 sheaves into one large stook, heads well inwards, and lay on the top a single sheaf on its side splayed out circularly. 1992 R. Hunt My Falkland Days 20 Every householder was allocated a bank and had to cut and 'rickle' his own peat. 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