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
The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent
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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? ''
The Waverley 1877
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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?'
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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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?'
Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801
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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?'
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801
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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?'
Waverley Walter Scott 1801
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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.
Two on a Tower 2006
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He groaned to the young man in a whisper, “This is a bruckle het, maister, I’m much afeared!
The Woodlanders 2006
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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?’
Waverley 2004
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a terrible bruckle hit in 's marrying, in the sight of the high.
Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy 1884
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