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lingels

lingels is the plural of lingel.

Meaning of lingel

Noun

lingel (plural lingels)

  1. (obsolete) 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
  2. (obsolete) 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

Questions about lingels

What is lingels the plural of?
Lingels is the plural of lingel.

Words near lingels in the dictionary

  1. lingcod
  2. lingcods
  3. Lingdale
  4. linge
  5. lingel
  6. lingels
  7. Lingeman
  8. Lingen
  9. lingenberries
  10. lingenberry
  11. lingence

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