Meaning of pingle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small piece of enclosed ground.
   UK, dialectal, obsolete
2. An onerous and difficult task; a hardship.
   obsolete
3. A small pot with a lid.
4. A surname.

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.”

“Martyn Browne, Esq., paid a fat turkey, or two shillings, in rent for a 'pingle'—a small piece of enclosed land—there.”

“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,”

“If ane had tald youn sae when ye was single, Your judgment to believ't wou'd had a pingle.”

“You want a pingle, lassie, weel and guid—'Tis thretty pennies—pit it whar it stood!”

“When he brained a man with a pingle spike Or plastered a seaman flat, We should 'a' been blowed, but we all of us knowed That he didn't mean nothin' by that.”

“Meg the house-lass, Tibbie's younger sister, let fall a "pingle" of sowens in her agitation, but Mrs. Colvend was too angry even to register this for future punishment.”

“We've all heard of "Double, double, toil and trouble," but as "Hallowmass" approached, Shakespeare's contemporaries would hve been just as likely to suffer from the earworm, "Mingle, mingle, in the pingle,/Join the catrip with the jingle." […] The above is a line from the Galloway Song, one of a number of Jacobean greatest hits having to do with witches.”

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