heckle
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Miss Becky Glibbans gave a satirical keckle at this, and showed her superior learning, by explaining to Mrs. Craig the unbroken nature of the kingly office.
From The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family by Galt, John
I throw the wee stools o'er the mickle, While round the fire the giglets keckle To see me loup; An', raving mad, I wish a heckle Were i' their doup!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
Keck′ling, rope, chains, &c. used to keckle cables or hawsers.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
O mickle yeuks the keckle doup, An' a' unsicker girns the graith, For wae and wae the crowdies loup O'er jouk an' hallan, braw an' baith.
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James
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