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▪ I. ankle, ancle, n.|ˈæŋk(ə)l|
Forms: 1 an-, oncleow, 2 oncleou, 4 anclowe, ankel, 3–5 anclee, 5 ankyl(le, 6–7 anckle, 3– ancle, 7– ankle, (dial. anclef, -cliff, ancley).
[Two forms: (1) OE. onclé ow (cf. OFris. onklef, Du. anklaauw, enklaauw, rare OHG. anchlao), whence 14th c. anclee, and mod. dial. forms; (2) mod. ankle, ancle, earlier ankyl, ankel (= OFris. ankel, Du. enkel, ON. ökkla for *ankula, Dan. and Sw. ankel, OHG. anchala anchal, enchil, MHG., mod.G. enkel), not recorded in OE. and prob. taken in ME. from Norse. The latter is the original Teut. form, from root ank-, L. ang-, to bend, crook; cf. L. angulus. The first form is derived from this, but is not completely explained: the Du. anklaauw appears to assimilate the ending to klaauw claw, the OE. ancléow may be a weakened form of the same, or the ending may be assimilated to that of cnéow knee (-éow being a formative, cf. láréow teacher).]
1. The joint which connects the foot with the leg; the slender part of the leg between this joint and the calf.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 116 Læt þonne blod under ancleow. c1000ælfric Gloss. 299 Talus, ancléow. c1150in Wright Voc. 87/1 Talus, oncleou. a1300W. de Biblesworth ibid. 148 Kyvil, ancle [v.r. in Rel. Ant. II. 79 Keuil, ankel]. c1330Arth. & Merl. 5206 In blod he stode..into the Anclowe. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 802 Vp to the anclee [v.r. anclees, ancle-3, anches] foghte they in hir blood. 1440Promp. Parv. Ankyl, Cavilla, Verticillum. 1535Coverdale Ezek. xlvii. 3 He brought me thorow y⊇ water, euen to the ancles. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Cyrurg., The lesser pyt bone..with the other pyt bone makynge the outwarde ancle. 1602Shakes. Ham. ii. i. 80 His stockings foul'd, Vngartred, and downe giued to his Anckle. 1621Sanderson 4 Serm. Ad Pop. (1681) 214 It is never well when the Cobbler looketh above the Ankle. a1732Gay Wks. I. 144 Above her ancle rose the chalky clay. 1812Henry Camp. agst. Quebec 21 Without other accident than the spraining of Lieutenant Steele's ancle. a1821Keats Poet. Wks. (1861) 203 The neatness Of thine ankle lightly turned. 1875Lubbock Orig. Civilis. ii. 56 Hanging things round their necks, arms and ancles. [1875Parish Sussex Dial. 13 Ancley, ancliff: in East Sussex, ‘I have put out my ancliff-bone’ = I have sprained my ancle. 1875Gl. Lanc. Dial. 10 ‘Yore Jack's knockt his anclef out wi' jumpin.’ 1881A. F. Parker Oxfordsh. Gl. 74 Ankley.]
2. transf.
1866Thoreau Yankee in Can. i. 6 The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle.
3. Comb. and attrib., as ankle-bone, ankle-joint, ankle-vein; also ankle-bands, straps passing round the ankles to fasten low shoes or sandals; ankle-boot, (a) a boot reaching to or a little above the ankle; (b) a covering for a horse's ankle, used as a protection; ankle-deep a. (adv.), so deep as to cover the ankles; ankle-gear, anything worn round the ankles; ankle-high a. (adv.), so high as to cover the ankles; ankle-jack, a jack- boot reaching above the ankles (hence ankle-jacked a.); ankle-jerk, a reflex movement of the ankle-joint produced by tapping the Achilles tendon; ankle-length a., of a garment, that reaches down as far as the ankles; ankle-rings, rings worn as ornaments round the ankles; ankle-sock, a sock reaching to just above the ankle; ankle-straps = ankle-bands; also low shoes secured by such straps; ankle-tie = ankle-straps.
1863Atkinson Whitby Gloss., *Ankle-bands, strings for the sandals; leathern straps for the shoes.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. lvi. (1495) 171 The hele is bounde to the *ancle bone wyth nesshe bondes. 1526Tindale Acts iii. 7 His fete and ancle-bones receaued strength. [So in 1611.]
1840New Monthly Mag. LVIII. 505 He has no stockings under his *ankle-boots. 1917G. Frankau City of Fear 16 The ankle-boots and the puttees, caked stiff with the Flanders mud. 1936Discovery July 228/2 Many parachutists wear special ankle boots. 1958J. Hislop From Start to Finish 166 Ankle-boots, felt or cloth pads made to go round a horse's legs below the knee and fastened with straps.
1764Harmer Round Towers i. xii. 35 The water was *ancle-deep, and in some places half way up the leg. 1784Cowper Task i. 270 Hence, ancle deep in moss and flow'ry thyme, We mount again. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. §18. 133 We stood ankle-deep in snow.
1855Singleton Virgil I. 363 He first Binds to his feet his *ancle-gear of gold.
1757Lisle Husb. 425 The sedgy grass comes up, and grows *ancle-high.
1848Dickens Dombey (1870) I. xv. 313 He changed his shoes and put on an unparalleled pair of *ankle-jacks. 1874Hardy Madding Crowd I. viii. 86 The laced-up shoes called ankle-jacks.
1861Sala Tw. round Clock 203 Its red 'kerchiefed, corduroyed, and *ankle-jacked proprietor.
1888A. L. Ranney Lect. Nerv. Dis. ii. 173 The *ankle-jerk. If the muscles of the tendo-Achilles be put upon the stretch by flexion of the foot, a blow upon that tendon will cause a similar extension of the foot. 1962Lancet 1 Dec. 1133/2 Ankle-jerks were absent and knee-jerks much reduced.
1836Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. I. 151/1 The *ankle-joint, or tibio-tarsal articulation.
1903Daily Chron. 25 July 8/4 *Ankle-length ones [skirts] have gained votaries across the Channel. 1950H. McCloy Through Glass (1951) ix. 89 An ankle-length housecoat.
1850Layard Nineveh iv. 67 The silver *ankle-rings of his favorite wife.
1936W. Holtby S. Riding iv. vi. 262 Her young body, partially covered by pink brassière, trunks, slippers and white *ankle-socks. 1962V. Nabokov Pale Fire 123 In those days growing boys of high-born families wore on festive occasions..sleeveless jerseys, white ankle-socks with black buckle shoes, [etc.].
1873E. S. Phelps Trotty's Wedding Tour i. 3 Her little *ankle-ties swung tormentingly and carelessly to and fro against the wood⁓pile. 1923K. D. Wiggin Gard. Memory 5 Children with brief legs, white stockings, and ankle-ties.
1615Crooke Body of Man 734 The Saphena or *anckle vaine.
Add:[3.] ankle oedema.
1959W. Raab in A. A. Luisada Cardiology IV. xvi. 114/2 Moderate *ankle edema, exertional dyspnea and sighing respiration must not be mistaken as evidence of congestive failure. 1984Jrnl. Cardiovascular Pharmacol. VI. (Suppl.) s1060/2 Dizziness and ankle oedema each occurred once.
▪ II. ankle, v.|ˈæŋk(ə)l|
[f. the n.]
1. intr. To use the ankles to good effect in cycling (see quot. 1961).
1896C.T.C. Monthly Gaz. July 323/1 How to learn to ankle is a question of some difficulty. 1961F. C. Avis Sportsman's Gloss. 146/1 Ankle, to turn the pedal with the foot so that this pushes downwards with the forward stroke, and claws the pedal upwards from the rear, the ankle forming a kind of axis upon which the foot turns.
2. intr. To walk, go. slang.
1926Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 5/1 Ankled by, went by and not riding. 1930‘I. Hay’ & Wodehouse Baa, Baa, Black Sheep ii. 49 Let's ankle out of this. 1932Wodehouse Hot Water xv. 243 Ankling into the hospital and eating my grapes with that woman's kisses hot upon your lips.
b. trans. To walk in. poet.
1949Dylan Thomas in Botteghe Oscure IV. 399 The heron, ankling the scaly Lowlands of the waves. |