noddle

Five years to fit a lad, who already hath somewhat in his noddle, to do a man's work?

"Not while I've a ha'p'orth o' brains in my noddle," replied Sedgett, drawling an imitation of his enemy's courteous tone.

Yesterday, he wrote, in order to refresh my poor noddle, I took a walk to Canteleu.

You, big and stout as father and mother put together, you can't find any expedient in your noddle?

I was coming down from that big commissary tent, scout pace, when some poetry jumped into my noddle.