Definition: mickle

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

mickle
     n : (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent:
         "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of
         money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must
         have cost plenty" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good
         deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess,
          mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite
         a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy
         sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Mickle \Mic"kle\, a. [OE. mikel, muchel, mochel, mukel, AS.
   micel, mycel; akin to OS. mikil, OHG. mihil, mihhil, Icel.
   mikill, mykill, Goth. mikils, L. magnus, Gr. ?, gen. ?; cf.
   Skr. mahat. [root]103. Cf. Much, Muckle, Magnitude.]
   Much; great. [Written also muckle and mockle.] [Old Eng.
   & Scot.] ``A man of mickle might.'' --Spenser.