adangle

English

Etymology

a- +‎ dangle

Adjective

adangle (not comparable)

1. 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?