nickle
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Nickle \Nic"kle\, n. (Zool.) The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also nicker pecker. [1913 Webster]
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
nickle
/ni'kl/ ["nickel", common name for the US 5-cent coin] A nibble + 1; 5 bits. Reported among developers for Mattel's GI 1600 (the Intellivision games processor), a chip with 16 bit-wide RAM but 10 bit-wide ROM. See also deckle.
The Jargon File
nickle /ni'kl/, n.
[from ‘nickel’, common name for the U.S. 5-cent coin] A nybble + 1; 5 bits. Reported among developers for Mattel's GI 1600 (the Intellivision games processor), a chip with 16-bit-wide RAM but 10-bit-wide ROM. See also deckle, and nybble for names of other bit units.