English

Alternative forms

• pyghtle
• pightel
• pightell
• picle
• pingle (dialect form reported by Johnson)

Noun

pightle ‎(plural pightles)

1. (archaic, dialectal) A small piece of enclosed land, often by a hedge. Some authorities also indicate that a pightle tends to be associated with a house or messuage.

References

• Speaking the Norfolk dialect - Basic level
• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editor (1884–1928) A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697; and The Oxford English Dictionary; being a Corrected Re-issue with an Introduction, Supplement, and Bibliography of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (the First Supplement), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933, OCLC 2748467.
• Percy Manning, "Notes on the place-names and field-names of the Parish of Watford, Herts.", Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club Vol. X, Part 6, pp. 193–212, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1900.
• Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years; Founded on the Publications of the English Dialect Society and on a Large Amount of Material Never Before Printed, Oxford University Press (1970)
• A Dictionary of the English Language Samuel Johnson (W Strahan ‧London, 15 April 1755)