rickle

plural rickles

1. ScotlandA loose, disordered collection of things; a heap; a jumble.

   It was no more than a butt and a ben, with a rickle of sheds behind it where old Pooty kept his donkey that was nearly as old […]

   1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Canongate Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 22

2. ScotlandA small rick of grain.
3. ScotlandA dilapidated or ramshackle building.

   We came home by a place called Speke Hall — built 1589 — the queerest-looking old rickle of boards that I ever set eyes on; […]

   1844, Jane Welsh Carlyle, letter to Thomas Carlyle dated 28 June 1844, re-printed in New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle (ed. Alexander Carlyle), John Lane (1903), pages 136-137

4. ScotlandAny object in poor condition, particularly a vehicle.

   On a memorable night was the old rickle of a boat taken out to the West Sands during a terrible storm, when Admiral Maitland Dougall distinguished himself by his valiant services.

   1899, Golf Illustrated, volume 2, page 93

5. ScotlandAn emaciated person or animal.

   But it's a bad disaise that can't be cured somehow, Manis said to himself — so be began to consider how to sell his rickle of a pony to advantage.

   1899, Seumas MacManus, In Chimney Corners: Merry Tales of Irish Folk Lore, Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, page 228