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English Dictionary: Brickle by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
brickle
adj
  1. having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"
    Synonym(s): brittle, brickle, brickly
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.
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