eckle

== English == === Alternative forms === eccle === Etymology 1 === From a variation of ickle (“icicle”), from Middle English ikil, ykle, from Old English ġicel (“ice, icicle”), from Proto-West Germanic *jikil, from Proto-Germanic *jekulaz (“piece of ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- (“icefloe, icicle”). More at ickle. ==== Noun ==== eckle (plural eckles) (dialectal) An icicle. (dialectal, usually in the plural) The crest of a cock. (dialectal) A woodpecker. === Etymology 2 === Alteration of ettle. ==== Verb ==== eckle (third-person singular simple present eckles, present participle eckling, simple past and past participle eckled) (intransitive, Northern England) To aim; intend; design. === Anagrams === cleek, Cleek, Eckel, Kelce