单词 | rangale |
释义 | rangalen. Chiefly Scottish. 1. The ranks or main body of an army. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > part of army by position > [noun] > main body or middle stalec1350 chivalry1382 rangale?a1400 middlewardc1440 battle1489 main battle1569 main-ward1570 centre1590 camp-royal1593 main body1595 grossc1600 battalia1613 battalion1653 centreline1774 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 116 (MED) Walter Spek ros on hand þe folk to forme & taile; He bad þat non alone breke out of þe rengaile. 2. Scottish. a. Rabble (esp. of an army), camp followers; (as a count noun) a crowd or mob, a multitude; a tight group or huddle. Eng. Dial. Dict. (at Rangel) records this sense as still in use in Aberdeenshire in 1903. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > camp follower > [noun] > collectively rascala1382 rascaldry?1457 rangale1487 blackguard1560 rangat1606 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xi. 111 Men on fut and small rangale, That ȝemyt harnas and vittale. a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) viii. 5359 Ane hundreth armyd jolyly Off knychtis and sqwyeris, but rangale. 1667 in J. R. N. Macphail Highland Papers (1916) II. 10 They called for all the rangall and poor ones that were in the toun. 1748 R. Forbes tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 3 A rangel o' the commoun fouk In burachs a' stood roun. a1774 R. Fergusson Poems Var. Subj. (1779) 26 In rangles round before the ingle's low. 1819 J. Rennie St. Patrick I. vi A rangel o' hills roun't tae haud in the water. ΚΠ 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. iv. 57 First the ledaris thre,..Smertlie he slew, syne all the rangald persewis. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] riot1400 tumult1412 misgovernail?a1439 rout1439 revel1462 tumultuationc1475 stir1487 rangat?a1513 rangale1513 turmoil1526 ruffle1532 confusion1555 disorder1558 roaring1617 mayhem1976 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. xii. 73 Gret rout with rangald, in ledis he. a1525 Thre Prestis of Peblis (Asloan) (1920) 1 Thai luifit nocht na rangald nor repaire. 1562–3 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 288 Vtheris without ony rangald in tymes cuming. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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