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▪ I. dunkle, v. Sc.|ˈdʌŋk(ə)l|
Also dunckle.
[A parallel form to duntle, dimple: cf. the parallel forms crimple, crumple, crinkle, crunkle, dingle, dimble.]
trans. To make a dint or pit in; to dint.
1822Galt Sir A. Wylie III. xxxiii. 284 We think his harnpan's surely dunklet. 1830― Lawrie T. ii. i. (1849) 42 Without very deeply dunkling the truth.
▪ II. dunkle, n. Sc.|ˈdʌŋk(ə)l|
[Goes with prec. vb.]
‘The dint made or cavity produced by a blow, or in consequence of a fall’ (Jam.).
1821Galt in Blackw. Mag. X. 6 [It] would have left both cloors and dunkles in her character. |