Rangle

Quick meaning: Rangle is a verb meaning (intransitive, obsolete) To range about in an irregular manner.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Stones or gravel eaten by birds of prey to improve digestion; gastroliths [from 17th c.]

Example Sentences

Previously she was seen eating on 1 pigeon fledgling 2 days before swalling the rangle

The rangling rage that held from home Ulisses all too long, / Made chast Penelope complaine of him that did her wrong.

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.

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?

Word Forms

• rangles
• rangling
• rangled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include range, roam, over, space, knock about, run around.

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