rangle en · VERB · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˈɹæŋɡəl/ without æ-raising
- [ˈɹeɪ̯ŋɡl̩] æ-raising
- /ˈɹɛ̃ŋɡəl/ æ-raising
- [ˈɹæŋɡl̩] without æ-raising
- /ˈɹeɪ̯ŋɡəl/ æ-raising
- [ˈɹɛ̃ŋɡl̩] æ-raising
Etymology
From range + -le (frequentative suffix).
Meanings
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(intransitive, obsolete) To range about in an irregular manner.
Haue you not heard it long ago of cunning Fawkners tolde, / […] / And ſuch as knowe the luring voice of him that féedes them ſtill: / And neuer rangle farre abroade againſt the kéepers will, / Doe farre excéede the haggarde Hauke that ſtoopeth to no ſtale: / Nor forceth on the Lure awhit, but mounts with euery gale?
1567, George Turbervil[l]e, “The Louer to a Gentlewoman, that after Great Friendship without Desart or Cause of Mislyking Refused Him”, in Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets, with a Discourse of the Friendly Affections of Tymetes to Pyndara His Ladie. […], London: […] Henry Denham, →OCLC, folios 14, verso – 15, recto:The rangling rage that held from home Ulisses all too long, / Made chast Penelope complaine of him that did her wrong.
1594, Henry Willobie, edited by Charles Hughes, Willobie His Avisa, London: Sherratt and Hughes, published 1904, page 138: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.
1591, [Ludovico Ariosto], “The XIX. Booke”, in Iohn Haringtõ [i.e., John Harington], transl., Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse, […], London: […] Richard Field […], →OCLC, stanza 56:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| rangled | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| rangled | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| rangles | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| rangling | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |