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dackles

dackles is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 dackles

What is dackles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Dackles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dackle.

Words near dackles in the dictionary

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

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