eckle

English

Alternative forms

• eccle

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

eckle (plural eckles)

1. (dialectal) An icicle.
2. (dialectal, usually in the plural) The crest of a cock.
3. (dialectal) A woodpecker.

Etymology 2

Alteration of ettle.

Verb

eckle (third-person singular simple present eckles, present participle eckling, simple past and past participle eckled)

1. (intransitive, Northern England) To aim; intend; design.

Anagrams

• Cleek, Eckel, cleek