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meikle

a. (alternative form of mickle English)

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Meikle

Meikle may refer to:

People:

  • Andrea Meikle (née Crowther) (born 1963), former association football player who represented New Zealand at international level
  • Andrew Meikle (1719–1811), Scottish mechanical engineer credited with inventing the threshing machine
  • Andrew Meikle Bryan FRSE (1893–1988), Scottish mining engineer
  • Carola Ivena Meikle (née Dickinson), British algologist, or anaesthetist with speciality training in pain management
  • Chris Meikle, Senior Vice President of St Louis Music and the Head of Development of Alvarez Guitars
  • Craig Meikle (born 1979), Scottish Junior footballer/manager
  • George Meikle Kemp (1795–1844), Scottish carpenter/joiner, draughtsman, and self-taught architect
  • Izzy Meikle-Small (born 1996), British actress who has appeared in feature films and TV shows
  • Jeffrey Meikle, American cultural historian, Professor in the American Studies and American Civilization Programs of the University of Texas at Austin
  • John James Meikle (1845–1937), New Zealand farmer and litigant
  • John Meikle VC MM (1898–1918), Scottish hero of World War I and recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • John Meikle (Saskatchewan politician) (1870–1964), Scottish-born farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan
  • Lindon Meikle (born 1988), English professional footballer
  • Orde Meikle (born 1964), member of DJ duo Slam, with Stuart MacMillan (born 1966); co-founders of Soma Quality Recordings
  • Orim M. Meikle (born 1967), the Senior Pastor and Chairman of Rhema Canada in Toronto, Canada
  • Richard Meikle (1929–1991), Australian actor who worked extensively in film, theatre, film and radio
  • Robert Desmond Meikle (born 1923), Irish botanist from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • Robert Greenshields Meikle (1830–1887), merchant and political figure in Quebec
  • Sam Meikle (born 1971), Australian writer and director best known for his work in television
  • Thomas Meikle (1861–1939), born in Scotland, businessman and pioneer in Rhodesia

Places:

  • Meikle Auchengree, hamlet near Kilbirnie and Longbar in North Ayrshire, Scotland
  • Meikle Bin, peak in the Kilsyth Hills in Scotland
  • Meikle Earnock, medium sized suburb in the south of Hamilton, Scotland
  • Meikle Carewe Hill, landform in Aberdeenshire, Scotland in the Mounth Range of the Grampian Mountains
  • Meikle Millyea, a mountain in South West Scotland
  • Meikle Pap, a mountain in North East Scotland
  • Meikle Says Law in the Lammermuir Hills (An Lomair Mòr in Gaelic) in southern Scotland
  • Meikle Loch, in Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland
  • Meikle Wartle, small rural village in north-east of Scotland

Usage examples of "meikle".

I have set a nipperkin of toddy by me, just by way of spell, to keep away the meikle horned deil, or any of his subaltern imps who may be on their nightly rounds.

There was such a buying of wool to make blankets, with a booming of the meikle wheel to spin the same, and such birring of the little wheel for sheets and napery, that the manse was for many a day like an organ kist.