Definition of "ingle-nook" [ingle-nook]

• A corner by the fire. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "From behind the verandah screen which fenced the ingle-nook she heard these words!"
• "The click of billiard-balls came from the ingle-nook — Jack Cardigan, no doubt; a faint rustling, too, from an eucalyptus-tree, startling Southerner in this old English garden."
• "Auld Janet was established at the ingle-nook; Davie had turned the spit to his immortal honour; and even Ban and Buscar, in the liberality of"