tringle

See also: tringlé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French tringle (“rod”).

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃɹɪŋ.ɡl̩, -ɡəl]
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl

Noun

tringle (plural tringles)

  1. A curtain rod for a bedstead.[1]
  2. A small moulding of rectangular cross section, in a Doric triglyph, etc.
  3. A strip of wood at the edge of a gun platform to turn the recoil of the truck.

References

  1. ^ “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

  • IPA(key): /tʁɛ̃ɡl/
  • Audio (France (Lyon)):(file)

Noun

tringle f (plural tringles)

  1. rod
    • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
      De temps à autre, la porte d'un cabaret faisait tinter sa sonnette, et, quand il y avait du vent; l'on entendait grincer sur leurs deux tringles les petites cuvettes en cuivre du perruquier, qui servaient d'enseigne à sa boutique.
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  2. (architecture) taenia

Descendants

  • → Catalan: trangle
  • → English: trangle

Verb

tringle

  1. inflection of tringler:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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