From Middle Scots ingle, ingill, from Scottish Gaelic aingeal (“fire, light”), from Old Irish aingel, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óngʷl̥ (“coal”). Cognate with Irish aingeal.
Meanings
(Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete) An open fireplace.
Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, / Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely 1790, Robert Burns, Tam O'Shanter:
What? shall I have my sonne a stager now? an enghle for players? 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene i:
Abd el Kader called them whoresons, ingle's accidents, sons of a bitch, profiteering cuckolds and pimps, jetting his insults broadcast to the roomfull. 1926, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom:
My dear Rob, my beloved was known as Moustache to her ingles! 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 318: