English Explanatory Dictionary

eckle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An icicle.
  2. The crest of a cock.
  3. A woodpecker.
verb
  1. To aim; intend; design.

Word forms

eckle eckles eccle eckling eckled

Etymology

From a variation of ickle (“icicle”), from Middle English ikil, ykle, from Old English ġicel (“ice, icicle”), from Proto-West Germanic *jikil, from Proto-Germanic *jekulaz (“piece of ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- (“icefloe, icicle”). More at ickle.

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