tringle

See also: tringlé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French tringle (“rod”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl

Noun

tringle (plural tringles)

1. A curtain rod for a bedstead.
2. A small moulding of rectangular cross section, in a Doric triglyph, etc.
3. A strip of wood at the edge of a gun platform to turn the recoil of the truck.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “tringle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Giltner, Tingler, ringlet, tingler

French

Etymology

An alteration (with intrusive r) of Middle French tingle, from Middle Dutch tengel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɛ̃ɡl/

• Audio:

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Noun

tringle f (plural tringles)

1. rod
2. (architecture) tenia

Verb

tringle

1. inflection of tringler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “tringle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.