tringle
See also: tringlé
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French tringle (“rod”).
Noun
tringle (plural tringles)
- A curtain rod for a bedstead.
- A small moulding of rectangular cross section, in a Doric triglyph, etc.
- A strip of wood at the edge of a gun platform to turn the recoil of the truck.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tringle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
French
Etymology
An alteration (with intrusive r) of Middle French tingle, from Middle Dutch tengel.
Pronunciation
Noun
tringle f (plural tringles)
Verb
tringle
- first-person singular present indicative of tringler
- third-person singular present indicative of tringler
- first-person singular present subjunctive of tringler
- third-person singular present subjunctive of tringler
- second-person singular imperative of tringler
Further reading
- “tringle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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