rickles

Noun

rickle (plural rickles)

1. (Scotland) A 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. (Scotland) A small rick of grain.
3. (Scotland) A 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. (Scotland) Any 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. (Scotland) An 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