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, UK, intransitive) 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.

References

• “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), volume VIII, Part 1 (Q–R), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 141, column 3.

Anagrams

• Rangel, angler, Erlang, Arleng, Largen, Algren, langer, Nergal, largen, regnal, Nagler, gen'ral, Langer, erlang

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.