nickle
See also: Nickle
English
Noun
nickle (plural nickles)
- The European green woodpecker, Picus veridis.
Noun
nickle
- Misspelling of nickel.
- 1922, Jessie H. Bancroft, Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium:
- On top of the card place a dime or nickle; this should be exactly over the tip of the finger and in the middle of the card.
- 1919, Edward Alva Trueblood, In the Flash Ranging Service:
- Sweet rolls, the kind that sell four for a nickle at home, cost two for a nickle.
- 1894, Anna Fuller, Peak and Prairie:
- There were times when he was even constrained to hope that, by the same Great Influence, a spark of magnanimity had been awakened in Christie's abandoned soul; and once, when Eliza reported that her "pa" had given her a nickle, he almost believed that those seemingly ineffective words of his had, thanks to that same all-powerful intervention, made an impression.
- 1894, Anna Fuller, Peak and Prairie:
- There were times when he was even constrained to hope that, by the same Great Influence, a spark of magnanimity had been awakened in Christie's abandoned soul; and once, when Eliza reported that her "pa" had given her a nickle, he almost believed that those seemingly ineffective words of his had, thanks to that same all-powerful intervention, made an impression.
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Anagrams
- Nickel, inleck, nickel