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. (intransitive, obsolete) To range about in an irregular manner.
   • 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:

     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?

   • 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:

     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.

     An adjective use.

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