lingel
lingel noun: a shoemaker's thread rubbed with beeswax.
Noun
lingel (plural lingels)
- A shoemaker's thread rubbed with beeswax.
- When I was mortall, this my costiue corps / Did lap vp Figs and Raisons in the Strand, / Where sitting I espi'd a louely Dame, / Whose maister wrought with Lingell and with All, / And vnder ground he vampied many a boote.1607 (first performance), [Francis Beaumont], The Knight of the Burning Pestle, London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Walter Burre, […], published 1613, →OCLC, Act V, signature K3, recto
- A little tongue or thong of leather; a lacing for belts.
- a little hemp, which he spun into lingels1771, [Tobias Smollett], The Expedition of Humphry Clinker […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] W. Johnston, […]; and B. Collins, […], →OCLC
Forms of lingel
| plural | lingels |
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Origin of lingel
French ligneul, diminutive of Latin linea (“a linen thread”).
Words that rhyme with lingel
Questions about lingel
- What does lingel mean?
- Lingel means a shoemaker's thread rubbed with beeswax.
- What part of speech is lingel?
- Lingel is a noun.
- What is the plural of lingel?
- The plural of lingel is lingels.
Words near lingel in the dictionary
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