pingles

Noun (1)

pingle (plural pingles)

1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A small piece of enclosed ground.
   • Matthew Smith, by his will, bearing date 20th February 1713, left two alms-houses which he had built, and four closes of land, part freehold and part copyhold, lying in the Hoppings, near Hopping-hill, in the liberty of Belper, containing, by estimation, 13 acres: and a pingle, containing half an...1833, Stephen Glover, Thomas Noble, The History, Gazetteer, and Directory of the County of Derby, page 104

Noun (2)

pingle

1. (obsolete) An onerous and difficult task; a hardship.
   • let them garr their wives; more awkward and violent; a pingle of trifles; a counterscarse of examples; an Empericall Quack-saluer;1612, Robert Persons, A discussion of the Answere of M. William Barlow , D. of Diuinity, to the Booke intituled: The Iudgment of a Catholike Englishman liuing in banishment for his Religion &c.

Noun (3)

pingle (plural pingles)

1. A small pot with a lid.
   • You want a pingle, lassie, weel and guid—'Tis thretty pennies—pit it whar it stood!1821 January, “The Humours of a Village Fair”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 8, page 429

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