Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Brickle"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Brickle \Bric"kle\, a. [OE. brekil, brokel, bruchel, fr. AS.
brecan, E. break. Cf. {Brittle}.]
Brittle; easily broken. [Obs. or Prov.] --Spenser.
As stubborn steel excels the brickle glass.
--Turbervile.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
brickle
adj : having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured
or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle";
"`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal" [syn: {brittle},
{brickly}]
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