nickle

See also: Nickle

English

Noun

nickle (plural nickles)

1. Misspelling of nickel.
   • 1922, Jessie H. Bancroft, Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 1919, Edward Alva Trueblood, In the Flash Ranging Service‎^[2]:

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

   • 1894, Anna Fuller, Peak and Prairie‎^[3]:

     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.

   • 1894, Anna Fuller, Peak and Prairie‎^[4]:

     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.