A small parcel of land enclosed with a hedge. In the eastern counties called a piʹkle.
“Never had that novelty in manure whitened the … pightels of Court Farm.”—Miss Mitford: Our Village, p. 68.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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