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Rickle vs Trickle - What's the difference?

rickle | trickle |

As nouns the difference between rickle and trickle

is that rickle is a loose, disordered collection of things; a heap; a jumble while trickle is a very thin river.

As a verb trickle is

to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.

rickle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A loose, disordered collection of things; a heap; a jumble.
  • * 1932 , , Sunset Song , Canongate Books (2008), ISBN 9781847673596, 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
  • A dilapidated or ramshackle building.
  • * 1844 , 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;
  • 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.
  • An emaciated person or animal.
  • * 1899 , , 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.

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    trickle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A very thin river.
  • The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle .
  • A very thin flow; the act of trickling .
  • The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.

    Verb

    (trickl)
  • to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously
  • The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
  • to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
  • Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
    The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
  • Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.
  • To move or roll slowly.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Their only shot of the first period was a long-range strike from top-scorer Ebanks-Blake which trickled tamely wide.}}

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