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dackled

dackled is the simple past and past participle of dackle.

Meaning of dackle

Verb

dackle (third-person singular simple present dackles, present participle dackling, simple past and past participle dackled)

  1. (Scotland) To slacken pace; to hesitate.
    • Sometimes we ran, sometimes we gaed; Whiles dackled on the way.1869, William Knight, Auld yule, and other poems (ed. by W. Lindsay), page 225

Questions about dackled

What is dackled the simple past and past participle of?
Dackled is the simple past and past participle of dackle.

Words near dackled in the dictionary

  1. dacitic
  2. dack
  3. dacked
  4. dacking
  5. dackle
  6. dackled
  7. dackles
  8. dackling
  9. dacks
  10. DACL
  11. daclatasvir

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