bangle

plural bangles

1. A rigid bracelet or anklet, especially one with no clasp.

   Mrs. MacAndrew smoothed down the lap of her gown, and gold bangles fell over her wrists.

   1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “ch. 15”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

present singular third person bangles · participle present bangling · participle past bangled · past bangled

1. obsoletetransitiveTo beat about or beat down, as corn by the wind.
2. dialectalobsoleteTo waste away little by little; squander carelessly; fritter (away).

   If we bangle away the legacy of peace left us by Christ, it is a sign of our want of regard for him. — Duty of Man.

   1 more example

   Thus betwixt hope and fear, suspicions, angers[…]betwixt falling in, falling out, etc., we bangle away our best days, befool out our times[…].

   1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 273

3. intransitive(falconry) To beat about in the air; flutter: said of a hawk which does not rise steadily and then swoop down upon its prey.
4. intransitiveTo flap or hang down loosely, as a hat brim or an animal's ear.

plural bangles

1. dialectalThe cut branch of a tree; a large, rough stick; the largest piece of wood in a bundle of twigs.