"meikle" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more meikle [comparative], most meikle [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} meikle (comparative more meikle, superlative most meikle)
  1. Alternative form of mickle. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: mickle Derived forms: Meikle Earnock
    Sense id: en-meikle-en-adj-OPzPY8Ma Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon [pseudonym; James Leslie Mitchell], “Prelude: The Unfurrowed Field”, in Sunset Song: A Novel, London: Jarrolds, Limited, →OCLC; republished Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2008, page 1",
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