brickle

Adjective

brick=le

WORDNET DICTIONARY

brickle(s = adj.all) brickly, brittle - having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"

brickle, a. [OE. brekil, brokel, bruchel, fr. AS. brecan, E. break. Cf. Brittle.].

Brittle; easily broken. Spenser. [1913 Webster]

"As stubborn steel excels the brickle glass." [1913 Webster]