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Meanings of mickle in English

Portuguese
montão
Catalan
feix
Spanish
mogollón
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(Often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent.

      montão
      Usage of mickle in English
      1
      Whatever the homeless warriors may have done, they be now in mickle need.
      The Nibelungenlied
      2
      That word pleased them, and they I held the bridal with mickle joy.
      Old French Romances, Done into English
      3
      From their foes they had already suffered mickle stress of war.
      The Nibelungenlied
      4
      Better had he left it undone, for mickle is his blame.
      The Fall of the Nibelungs
      5
      I heard nor sid nowt that's dow, but mickle that's conny and gladsome.
      J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5
      6
      Her pain was passing great; a mickle wonder it was that she ever lived.
      The Nibelungenlied
      7
      The faithless Huns brought a mickle band before the house.
      The Nibelungenlied
      8
      To the hall a mickle force of well-armed warriors marched.
      The Nibelungenlied
      9
      Into the ring men bare a heavy stone, huge and great, mickle and round.
      The Nibelungenlied
      10
      A mickle troop had Gwitard, the King of Gascony land.
      Layamon's Brut
      11
      Many littles make a mickle, and he that is getting aught is losing naught.
      Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote
      12
      Right...well, Louis XIV has a mickle abscess on his neck.
      The confusion
      13
      You know the old proverb, 'Many littles make a mickle.'
      Lizzy Glenn; Or, The Trials of a Seamstress
      14
      Their mickle honors lay there low in death; the courtiers all had grief and drearihead.
      The Nibelungenlied
      15
      He wist how to live bountifully, in mickle honors.
      The Nibelungenlied
      16
      Then were the Nibelungs made acquaint with mickle toil.
      The Nibelungenlied
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