DSL - SND1 PINGLE, v.1, n.1 Also pingel, pengle, paingle; and with variant ending ¶pinger. [pIl] I. v. intr. 1. To strive, contend, compete; to quarrel, fight, disagree (Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 382). Phr. to pingle wi' a maister, fig. to contend against overwhelming odds, attempt the impossible (Sc. 1880 Jam.). Vbl.n. pinglin, a thrashing, drubbing (Rxb. 1965).
*Kcb. 1789 D. Davidson Seasons 78:
The chiels began to pingle; An' drunken carles coupin doun, Made mugs an' yill-caups jingle.
*Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 350:
They pingle meikle on his side to play.
2. To struggle at a difficult task, to work in a close, laborious, painstaking way, to expend effort and energy to little purpose, to drudge (Sc. 1782 J. Sinclair Ob. Sc. Dial. 91, 1808 Jam.; Sh. 1878 E.D.D.; Rxb. 1923
Got this from Google................................hope it helps
I've never heard of any of those definitions before,!! What I think I'm really looking for is a pingle as an area of land, at least thats how I read the extract on TNA.
From what I can find a pingle isn't a unit of measurement it just refers to a small enclosed piece of land and can be of varying sizes in the case you refer to 6 acres.
This also comes from Google.. (where would we be without google?)
more research: Websters Pingle Pin"gle, n. [Perhaps fr. pin to impound.]
A small piece of inclosed ground. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Oxford Etymological dictionary
pound
"enclosed place for animals," late O.E. pundfald "penfold, pound," related to pyndan "to dam up, enclose (water)," and thus from the same root as pond. Ultimate origin unknown; no certain cognates beyond Eng.
Dorothy G
searching Gillett (Preston/Sheffield). Campbell and Hepburn in Glasgow
the pound sounds very similar to an area I grew up knowing as a "pinfold" - as in an enclosed area where stray animals were kept in the middle of the village until there owners claimed them - for a small fee of course.
The term Pingle is still used in this part of Lincolnshire. There was quite a row a few years ago when a developer wanted to build an access road to some new houses across the Pingle in a village near here. I thought it was a piece of common land which was secure where people could graze their live stock.
Ann
".... thy memory shall be blest by the children of the children of thy child". Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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