nickle

name

1. A surname originating as a patronymic.

noun

1. European green woodpecker (Picus viridis).
2. (alt-of, misspelling)Misspelling of nickel.

   “On top of the card place a dime or nickle; this should be exactly over the tip of the finger and in the middle of the card.”

   “Sweet rolls, the kind that sell four for a nickle at home, cost two for a nickle.”

   “There were times when he was even constrained to hope that, by the same Great Influence, a spark of magnanimity had been awakened in Christie's abandoned soul; and once, when Eliza reported that her "pa" had given her a nickle, he almost believed that those seemingly ineffective words of his had, thanks to that same all-powerful intervention, made an impression.”

   “There were times when he was even constrained to hope that, by the same Great Influence, a spark of magnanimity had been awakened in Christie's abandoned soul; and once, when Eliza reported that her "pa" had given her a nickle, he almost believed that those seemingly ineffective words of his had, thanks to that same all-powerful intervention, made an impression.”