pingle
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A small piece of enclosed ground.Examples: "Matthew Smith, by his will, bearing date 20th February 1713, left two alms-houses which he had built, and four closes of land, part freehold and part copyhold, lying in the Hoppings, near Hopping-hill, in the liberty of Belper, containing, by estimation, 13 acres: and a pingle, containing half an acre, to George Gregory, esq. of Nottingham, and Thomas Goodwin, esq. of Derby, and their heirs, to the intent that the yearly rents and profits thereof should be faithfully employed by them, for and towards the relief of two poor people, to be fifty years of age when placed in the said alms-houses, the same to be paid to them quarterly."; "In 1619, John Chipsey and his wife Ellen surrendered lands in Scotter at le Clowehole," and "a pingle at the woodside," Manor Records, sub anno."; "This was the case with a pingle wall erected on the waste c. 1750 by the then owner of the Throckmorton—Murcott—Wheeler—Smith holding."UKdialectalobsolete
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, UK, dialect) To eat with a feeble appetite.Examples: "all this while when we haue beene at the Lords spirituall feasts, wee haue but pingled, and neuer made a good meale."; "The Liberal and Conservative rivals of the Socialist whole hoggers may nibble at Socialism as John Browdie pingled with the crust of the Yorkshire pie, but dry nurse and coddle the electors as they will, neither Free Traders nor Tariff Reformers can approach the large, divine, and comfortable creed of the Socialist whole hogger."; "This man complained of burning pains in the stomach, he pingled his food."UKdialectalintransitive
2. (intransitive, UK, dialect) To dawdle.Examples: "He pingled his wey tae the first o the moontain's three fause peaks an wis hauf-roads tae the second when a voice rang oot across the hills like a thunder plump."UKdialectalintransitive
3. (intransitive) To struggle; to work with great effort.Examples: "Those that but now did put their labo'ring hands Unto thy Plough, have rid more work away Then I that here have pingled many a day."; "Both of us have pingled at our seams for forty year good."; ""It was for the laddie I pingled and scarted it together," she soliloquized aloud,"intransitive
4. (transitive) to bother or create work for.Examples: "and howbeit all the Nobillmen and Gentillmen, Bisschoppis, Commissiouneries, and thair adherentis, voitit to the Bisschop Law, yit a number of the best of the Ministerie pingled them; so that , iff they had not bein devydit becaus of Mr Patrick Simpsoune's disseas and waiknes, it wes thought they sould haiff prevaillit."; "Ta Tighearnach (i.e., the Chief) did not like ta Sassenach Duinhé-wassel to be pingled wi' mickle speaking, as she was na' tat weel."transitive
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) An onerous and difficult task; a hardship.Examples: "let them garr their wives; more awkward and violent; a pingle of trifles; a counterscarse of examples; an Empericall Quack-saluer;"; "Judgment's a pingle: Blindeman's Buff's plaid there. Sin playes at Coursey-Park within my Minde;"; "I'm sure some o' them wat the sma End o' their Moggins, syn we laid our Heads together, an at it wi' Vir, at last wi' a Pingle,"obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary