What does rangle mean?
Rangle means (intransitive, obsolete) To range about in an irregular manner..
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/ˈɹæŋɡəl/ · verb
(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?
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.
The rangling rage that held from home Ulisses all too long, / Made chast Penelope complaine of him that did her wrong.
Previously she was seen eating on 1 pigeon fledgling 2 days before swalling the rangle
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Rangle means (intransitive, obsolete) To range about in an irregular manner..
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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?
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