Brewer's: Pightel

or Pightle. A small parcel of land enclosed with a hedge. In the eastern counties called a pikle.

“Never had that noyelty in manure whitened the ... pightels of Court Farm.” —Miss Mitford: Our Village, p. 68.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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