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adangle

adangle adjective: dangling.

Adjective

adangle (not comparable)

  1. Dangling.
    • The young boy sat on the bridge fishing, his legs adangle.
    • […] the slave that holds / John Baptist’s head a-dangle by the hair / With one hand […] and his weapon in the other, yet unwiped1855, Robert Browning, “Fra Lippo Lippi”, in Men and Women, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 37

Examples of adangle in a sentence

  • Keepers of the watch with lanterns trimmed for the night’s burning adangle from oaken poles braced across their shoulders.1902, Virna Sheard, A Maid of Many Moods, Toronto: Copp, Clark, Chapter, page 76:
  • His sword of rank adangle oddly, his puttees immaculately wound the wrong way round, was that a whistle he had hanging?2001, Jamie O’Neill, chapter 11, in At Swim, Two Boys, London: Scribner, page 325:

Origin of adangle

From a- + dangle.

Questions about adangle

What does adangle mean?
Adangle means dangling.
How do you use adangle in a sentence?
Keepers of the watch with lanterns trimmed for the night’s burning adangle from oaken poles braced across their shoulders.
What part of speech is adangle?
Adangle is an adjective.

Words near adangle in the dictionary

  1. Adana
  2. adanal
  3. adance
  4. Adang
  5. Adangbe
  6. adangle
  7. Adangme
  8. Adani
  9. Adank
  10. adansonia
  11. adansonian

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