eckle
verbEtymology Alteration of ettle.
1
Northern England To aim; intend; design.
eckle
nounEtymology 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.
1
Dialectal An icicle.
2
Dialectal, Plural normally The crest of a cock.
3
Dialectal A woodpecker.