meikle

See also: Meikle

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meikle (comparative more meikle, superlative most meikle)

  1. Alternative form of mickle.
    • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon [pseudonym; James Leslie Mitchell], “Prelude: The Unfurrowed Field”, in Sunset Song: A Novel, London: Jarrolds, Limited, →OCLC; republished Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2008, →ISBN, page 1:
      In the Den of Kinraddie one such beast had its lair [] and at gloaming a shepherd would see it, with its great wings half-folded across the great belly of it and its head, like the head of a meikle cock, but with the ears of a lion, poked over a fir tree, watching.

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meikle

  1. Alternative form of mickle
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