Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A dialectal (Scotch) form of
brickle .
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Examples
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'We be bruckle folk here -- the best o' us hardly honest sometimes, what with hard winters, and so many mouths to fill, and
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` ` I trust in God, not, unless it be to win the means of supporting her; for my things are but in a bruckle state; --- but what signifies warld's gear? ''
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'I trust in God not, unless it be to win the means of supporting her; for my things are but in a bruckle state; -- but what signifies warld's gear?'
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'I trust in God not, unless it be to win the means of supporting her; for my things are but in a bruckle state; -- but what signifies warld's gear?'
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'I trust in God, not, unless it be to win the means of supporting her; for my things are but in a bruckle state; -- but what signifies warld's gear?'
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'I trust in God not, unless it be to win the means of supporting her; for my things are but in a bruckle state; -- but what signifies warld's gear?'
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His father, the reverent Pa’son St. Cleeve, made a terrible bruckle hit in ‘s marrying, in the sight of the high.
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He groaned to the young man in a whisper, “This is a bruckle het, maister, I’m much afeared!
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‘I trust in God not, unless it be to win the means of supporting her; for my things are but in a bruckle state; — but what signifies warld’s gear?’
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a terrible bruckle hit in 's marrying, in the sight of the high.
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