Wiktionary
puckle
n. 1 (context obsolete English) The devil; Satan. 2 (context dialectal English) A fairy; elf; sprite.
Usage examples of "puckle".
Robin-goodfellow, the spoorne, the mare, the man in the oke, the hell-waine, the fier drake, the puckle, Tom Thombe, hobgoblins, Tom Tumbler, boneless, and such other bugs, that we were afraid of our own shadowes.
She just went about her business, brushing the cartridges onto the floor of the turret, loading and reloading with the thunderous racket of the Puckle gun in her ears, ignoring everything else around her.