shockle Sc. and north. Now rare.
(ˈʃɒk(ə)l)
Forms: 6 schokle, (7 sheckle), 9 schochle, shoggle.
[Shortened from ice-shockle, icicle.]
A lump of ice; an icicle.
| 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 46 First in thay ryde into this riuer..to thow the pypes and schokles of yce, frosin vpon thame. 1639 Sir R. Gordon Hist. Earld. Sutherl. (1813) 208 The ground wes ful of ronns, or sheckles of yce. a 1859 Watt in Mod. Scott. Poets Ser. ii. 54 The shochles, like crystal, hing clear frae the rocks. 1871 Waddell Ps. lxxviii. 47 He dang doun their plane trees wi shoggles o' ice. |