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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of mackle.

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Examples

  • Her arms were mackled red like a measles sufferer from being pricked and scraped with the cut grass ends, and she had a big blood-filled blister in the web of skin between her thumb and forefinger.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • Her arms were mackled red like a measles sufferer from being pricked and scraped with the cut grass ends, and she had a big blood-filled blister in the web of skin between her thumb and forefinger.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

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