rangle

present singular third person rangles · participle present rangling · participle past rangled · past rangled

1. intransitiveobsoleteTo range about in an irregular manner.

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

   1594, Henry Willobie, edited by Charles Hughes, Willobie His Avisa, London: Sherratt and Hughes, published 1904, page 138

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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?

   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

   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.

   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

1. uncountableStones or gravel eaten by birds of prey to improve digestion; gastroliths

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

   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