单词 | rangle |
释义 | ranglen. Falconry. Small stones or gravel given to a hawk, usually to improve its digestion. ΚΠ 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Rangle, in Faulconry, when you give a Hawk Gravel to bring her to her stomach. 1852 R. F. Burton Falconry in Valley of Indus vii. 75 The Bazdar gives his falcons bits of rangle the size of a pea in order to prevent their laying eggs. 1967 M. Woodford Man. Falconry (ed. 2) 132 Rangle was given every night for a week or ten days after the crop of food minus casting had been put over... The effect of the rangle is thought to be that it stirs up the accumulated grease and mucus in the hawk's pannel. 1978 P. Glasier Falconry & Hawking (1986) xvi. 198 I have never used rangle on my birds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † ranglev. Chiefly Falconry. Obsolete. intransitive. To stray; to rove, to wander. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander wharvec890 woreOE wandera1000 rengec1230 wagc1325 roamc1330 errc1374 raikc1390 ravec1390 rumblec1400 rollc1405 railc1425 roit1440 waverc1440 rangea1450 rove1481 to-waver1487 vaguea1525 evague1533 rangle1567 to go a-strayinga1586 vagary1598 divagate1599 obambulate1614 vagitate1614 ramble1615 divage1623 pererrate1623 squander1630 peramble1632 rink1710 ratch1801 browse1803 vagrate1807 bum1857 piroot1858 scamander1864 truck1864 bat1867 vagrant1886 float1901 vagulate1918 pissant1945 1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 15 Such as..neuer rangle farre abroade against the keepers will. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 23 These Eagles..doe roue and rangle abroade. 1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xix. lvi. 150 They scaped best that here and thither rangled. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler xi. 211 We sit still, watch our quill, Fishers must not rangle . View more context for this quotation 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 409 Sometimes a Haggard out of pride and a gadding humour will rangle out from her Keeper. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xi. 239/1 A Hawk that rangleth and wandreth abroad, and will not be at command. 1704 Dict. Rusticum at Mew The little Cord with the Swivil tied about the Stone, is to keep the hawk from rangling. Derivatives rangler n. a hawk which is prone to straying. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wanderer striker1393 roamerc1400 wandererc1440 whirlerc1440 gangrela1450 fluttererc1450 straggler1530 gadlinga1542 ranger1560 rover1568 fugitive1570 rangler1575 fleeter1581 extravagant1583 scatterling1590 vagranta1592 rambler1624 erratic1669 stravaiger1821 multivagant1895 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 9 No inwarde Eagle, but a fugitive, and a rangler. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xi. 239/1 Fugitive, or a Rangler, is a Hawk that rangleth and wandreth abroad, and will not be at command. rangling n. roving, wandering. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering wandering1362 roamingc1390 roving?1520 error1594 rangling1594 wanderment1597 rambling1622 rolling1624 vagancy1641 roverya1653 pervagation1656 oberration1658 vagrancya1677 stravaiging1825 scamander1873 outwandering1880 1594 Praise of Contented Mind in Willobie his Auisa f. 64v The rangling rage [i.e. passion] that held from home, Vlisses all too long. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1678v.1567 |
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