rangle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹæŋɡl̩/
• Rhymes: -æŋɡəl

Etymology 1

From range +‎ -le (frequentative suffix).

Verb

rangle (third-person singular simple present rangles, present participle rangling, simple past and past participle rangled)

1. (obsolete, dialect, UK) To range about in an irregular manner.
   • 1567, Catherine Bates, quoting George Turberville, Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets, fols. 14v–15v, quoted in Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser, Oxford UP, published 2013, page 157:

     And such as knowe the luring voice of him that feedes them still: / And neuer rangle farre abroade against the keepers will…

   • 1591, Ludovico Ariosto, translated by Sir John Harington, Orlando Furioso, London: G. Miller, translation of original in Italian, published 1634, book XIX, stanza 56, page 150:

     She bath’d her blade in blood up to the hilt, / And with the ſame their bodies all ſhe mangled, / All that abode her blowes, their bloud was ſpilt, / They ſcaped beſt that here and thither ranged,^[sic] / Or thoſe whoſe horſes overthrown at tilt, / Lay with their maſters on the earth intangled.

   • 1594, Henry Willobie, edited by Charles Hughes, Willobie His Avisa, London: Sherratt and Hughes, published 1904, page 138:

     The rangling rage that held from home Ulisses all too long, / Made chast Penelope complaine of him that did her wrong.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rangle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology 2

Noun

rangle (uncountable)

1. Stones or gravel eaten by birds of prey to improve digestion; gastroliths [from 17th c.]
   • 1982, Jorge L. B. Albuquerque, “Observations on the use of rangel by the Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus tundrius) wintering in southern Brasil”, in Raptor Research, volume 16, number 3, pages 91–92:

     Previously she was seen eating on 1 pigeon fledgling 2 days before swalling the rangle

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Rangle”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes VIII, Part 1 (Q–R), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 141, column 3.

Anagrams

• Langer, Nagler, Nergal, Rangel, angler, erlang, gen'ral, langer, largen, regnal

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Rangel (“tendril”) +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈraŋlə/
• Rhymes: -aŋlə
• Hyphenation: ran‧gle

Verb

rangle

1. (transitive, with accusative, of plants) to creep; to climb (to grow across a surface)

Conjugation

Regular
infinitive	rangle
participle	gerangeld
auxiliary	hon
	present indicative	imperative
ich	rangle	—
du	rangelst	rangel
er/sie/es	rangeld	—
meer	rangle	—
deer	rangeld	rangeld
sie	rangle	—
The use of the present participle is uncommon, but can be made with the suffix -end.