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cringles

cringles is the plural of cringle.

Meaning of cringle

Noun

cringle (plural cringles)

  1. A short piece of rope, arranged as a grommet around a metal ring, used to attach tackle to a sail etc.
    • "Lower till that rope-loop […] till the cringle was down on the boom. Then I'd tie her up the way you said, and then I'd hoist up the peak and throat halyards again."1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous
  2. A withe for fastening a gate.

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Questions about cringles

What is cringles the plural of?
Cringles is the plural of cringle.

Words near cringles in the dictionary

  1. cringings
  2. cringle
  3. cringle-crangle
  4. cringled
  5. Cringleford
  6. cringles
  7. cringling
  8. cringometer
  9. cringometers
  10. cringy
  11. crinicultural

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