Citations:rickle o' bones

Noun: "alternative form of rickle o' banes"

 * 1827 — Thomas Hamilton, The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, William Blackood (1827), page 138"
 * For a week before his death, he had suffered sorely from a diaray, which wasted him down to a perfect skeleton, and left nothing for Death at last but a mere rickle o' bones.
 * 1953 — Mary Lasswell, Tooner Schooner, Houghton Mifflin (1953), page 170:
 * "She's gonna be a rickle o' bones if she don't stop fallin' off her weight," Mrs. Feeley said.
 * 1978 — Richard Rowley, Apollo in Mourne: Poems, Plays & Stories (ed. Victor Price), Blackstaff Press (1978), ISBN 9780856401213, page 70:
 * When I've done wi' this rickle o' bones they can look out a grave for themselves,