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Webster 1913 Edition

Nickle

Nic′kle

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Noun.

(Zool.)

The European woodpecker, or yaffle; – called also

nicker pecker

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Definition 2024

Nickle

Nickle

See also: nickle

English

Proper noun

Nickle

A patronymic surname.

nickle

nickle

See also: Nickle

English

Noun

nickle ‎(plural nickles)

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.