nickle

plural nickles

1. European green woodpecker (Picus viridis).

1. misspellingMisspelling of nickel.

   Sweet rolls, the kind that sell four for a nickle at home, cost two for a nickle.

   1919, Edward Alva Trueblood, In the Flash Ranging Service

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   On top of the card place a dime or nickle; this should be exactly over the tip of the finger and in the middle of the card.

   1922, Jessie H. Bancroft, Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium

   There were times when he was even constrained to hope that, by the same Great Influence, a spark of magnanimity had been awakened in Christie's abandoned soul; and once, when Eliza reported that her "pa" had given her a nickle, he almost believed that those seemingly ineffective words of his had, thanks to that same all-powerful intervention, made an impression.

   1894, Anna Fuller, Peak and Prairie

   There were times when he was even constrained to hope that, by the same Great Influence, a spark of magnanimity had been awakened in Christie's abandoned soul; and once, when Eliza reported that her "pa" had given her a nickle, he almost believed that those seemingly ineffective words of his had, thanks to that same all-powerful intervention, made an impression.

   1894, Anna Fuller, Peak and Prairie

1. A surname originating as a patronymic.