Word.ws English Dictionary

teagle

teagle noun: a hoisting apparatus such as an elevator, crane, or lift.

Noun

teagle (plural teagles)

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal) A hoisting apparatus such as an elevator, crane, or lift.

Verb

teagle (third-person singular simple present teagles, present participle teagling, simple past and past participle teagled)

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive) To hoist or raise by means of a teagle, or as if with one.

Proper noun capitalized: Teagle

Teagle (plural Teagles)

  1. A surname.

Forms of teagle

Noun
pluralteagles
Verb
third-person singular presentteagles
present participleteagling
past participleteagled
pastteagled
Proper noun
pluralTeagles

Origin of teagle

Compare tackle.

Questions about teagle

What does teagle mean?
Teagle means a hoisting apparatus such as an elevator, crane, or lift.
What part of speech is teagle?
Teagle can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
What is the plural of teagle?
The plural of teagle is teagles.

Words near teagle in the dictionary

  1. Teafords
  2. Teagan
  3. Teagans
  4. teaghrelin
  5. teaghrelins
  6. teagle
  7. teagled
  8. teagles
  9. teagling
  10. teagown
  11. teagowned

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: teagle (page history and authors); Teagle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “teagle.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/teagle. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.