Rickle vs Trickle - What's the difference?
rickle | trickle |
A loose, disordered collection of things; a heap; a jumble.
* 1932 , , Sunset Song , Canongate Books (2008), ISBN 9781847673596,
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),
Any object in poor condition, particularly a vehicle.
* 1899 , Golf Illustrated , Volume 2, page 93:
An emaciated person or animal.
* 1899 , , In Chimney Corners: Merry Tales of Irish Folk Lore , Doubleday & McClure (1899),
A very thin river.
A very thin flow; the act of trickling .
to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously
to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
To move or roll slowly.
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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)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
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;
- 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.
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.
Quotations
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English
Noun
(en noun)- The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle .
- The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.
Verb
(trickl)- The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
- 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.
- 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.
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