lingel

L1I1N1G2E1L1

noun

A shoemaker's thread rubbed with beeswax.

OriginFrench ligneul ← Latin linea →
Scrabble 7
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounlingel (plural lingels)

plural lingels

  1. obsoleteA shoemaker's thread rubbed with beeswax.

    When I was mortall, this my costiue corps / Did lap vp Figs and Raisons in the Strand, / Where sitting I espi'd a louely Dame, / Whose maister wrought with Lingell and with All, / And vnder ground he vampied many a boote.

    1607 (first performance), [Francis Beaumont], The Knight of the Burning Pestle, London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Walter Burre, […], published 1613, →OCLC, Act V, signature K3, recto
  2. obsoleteA little tongue or thong of leather; a lacing for belts.

    a little hemp, which he spun into lingels

    1771, [Tobias Smollett], The Expedition of Humphry Clinker […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] W. Johnston, […]; and B. Collins, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinlinea“a linen thread”
  2. Frenchligneul
  3. Englishlingel

French ligneul, diminutive of Latin linea (“a linen thread”).

More words from French, Latin

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with lingel

singlejingleshingleminglepringletingledingleingleFingallinglekringleringleswingleinterminglecomminglebingleHingleatinglebeminglecassinglecingleintertwinglejingalKris Kringle
All rhymes →

Anagrams

Gillenlinglelignel
Cite this entry
APA

lingel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lingel

MLA

“lingel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lingel. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lingel,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lingel.

Source: lingel on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.