adangle
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]adangle (not comparable)
- Dangling.
- The young boy sat on the bridge fishing, his legs adangle.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Fra Lippo Lippi”, in Men and Women[1], volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 37:
- […] the slave that holds / John Baptist’s head a-dangle by the hair / With one hand […] and his weapon in the other, yet unwiped
- 1902, Virna Sheard, A Maid of Many Moods[2], Toronto: Copp, Clark, Chapter, page 76:
- Keepers of the watch with lanterns trimmed for the night’s burning adangle from oaken poles braced across their shoulders.
- 2001, Jamie O’Neill, chapter 11, in At Swim, Two Boys[3], London: Scribner, page 325:
- […] he presented an easy target for scoffing. His sword of rank adangle oddly, his puttees immaculately wound the wrong way round, was that a whistle he had hanging?