Citations:rickle of bones

Noun: "alternative form of rickle o' banes"

 * 1903 — S. R. Crockett, The Adventurer in Spain, Frederick A. Stocks Company (1903), page 249:
 * He felt no heavier than my half-plate camera does after a league or two — such a rickle of bones was he.
 * 1933 — Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, Canongate Books (1989), ISBN 9780862412272, page 69:
 * and how the devil they expected to get married and be ta'en with bairns you just couldn't guess, what man in his senses would want to bed with a rickle of bones and some powder, like?"
 * 1948 — Neil M. Gunn, The Silver Darlings, Faber and Faber Limited (1948), page 134:
 * "Well, I'll offer you four; and to save it from dying on your hands I'll give you two for the old rickle of bones. How's that?"
 * 2008 — Janice Galloway, This Is Not About Me, Granta Publications (2008), ISBN 9781847080998, page 93:
 * this bloke was a rickle of bones with bad skin, a hardly-any haircut and ears like colander handles.