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Brickle

Brickle \Bric"kle\, a. [OE. brekil, brokel, bruchel, fr. AS. brecan, E. break. Cf. Brittle.] Brittle; easily broken. [Obs. or Prov.]
--Spenser.

As stubborn steel excels the brickle glass.
--Turbervile.

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brickle

Etymology 1

  1. (context Appalachian or archaic or dialect English) (alternative form of breakle English) Etymology 2

    v

  2. (context Canadian English dialect English) To fail spectacularly.

WordNet
brickle

adj. having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal" [syn: brittle, brickly]

Usage examples of "brickle".

Hereunto likewise, because it is dry and brickle in the working (for it will hardly be made up handsomely into loaves), some add a portion of rye meal in our time, whereby the rough dryness or dry roughness thereof is somewhat qualified, and then it is named miscelin, that is, bread made of mingled corn, albeit that divers do sow or mingle wheat and rye of set purpose at the mill, or before it come there, and sell the same at the markets under the aforesaid name.

But, as I wot not how true this surmise is, because it is no part of my trade, so I am sure hereof that some housewives can and do add daily a less portion of ewe's milk unto the cheese of so many kine, whereby their cheese doth the longer abide moist and eateth more brickle and mellow than otherwise it would.

Red dwarfs in Narnia have names like Duffle, Rogin, Trumpkin, and Bricklethumb.